Definition: Vital statistics system

Category: Social statistics

A vital statistics system is the total process of 

(1) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency of occurrence of specified and defined vital events as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and of the person or persons concerned, and 

(2) of compiling, processing, analysing, evaluating, presenting and disseminating these data in statistical form. 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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