Definition: Vital event record

Category: Social statistics

A legal document entered in the civil register which attests to the occurrence and characteristics of a vital event. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SeriesF_84_EN.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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