Transcript The Assessment of Vital Statistics in China China, Quan Shaowei 2014 May Daejeon.

The Assessment of
Vital Statistics in China
China, Quan Shaowei
2014 May Daejeon
Is vital statistics produced from
civil registration?
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Partly
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The total population, fertility rate and mortality rate is
produced from census and survey, carried out by NBS. And
the household registration by the Ministry of Public Security
also have a household population statistics, include total
population, fertility rate and mortality rate, always a little
different from these from NBS, especial the figures by
regions. The marriage, divorce, cause of death is from civil
registration. The maternal and child health is from monitoring.
Does the vital statistics system
ensures
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Universal coverage? Yes, but population survey is sample
survey. The monitoring of maternal and child health is also not
universal coverage, there are 336 monitoring units from 2007.
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Is continuous? Yes. The registered population statistics is
from 1950s. The sample survey is from 1983.
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Confidentiality? For the census and survey, the confidentiality
is ruled by statistics law. Other civil registration is ruled by the
regulations or laws of separate agencies .
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Regular dissemination? Yes. by yearbook ,annual bulletin,
most of them can be obtained in website.
What is the role of health
institutions in the system?
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The issuer of birth certificate and death certificate.
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Carry out the monitoring of maternal and child health.
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The compiler and publisher of the data of cause of death
and of maternal and child health
Is there a body coordinating
between statistics, civil
registration, health and other
institutions?
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No.
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Most coordination work is done as needed of the agencies,
for assessing the accuracy and coverage of their own data.
Do the definitions of vital events in
the vital statistics system comply
with international standards?
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Mostly
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The definition of marriage and divorce may a little
different from the international standards, but
need verification to concerned agencies.
Topics comply with recommended?
 For through the civil registration system: No.
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The live birth: the characteristics of the mother and the
father are not included completely.
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The foetal death: I don’t know, need verification.
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Marriage and divorce: the characteristics of bride and groom
are not included completely.
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Above all, the rural/urban definition of the civil registration is
different from that of NBS. Most agencies use the definition
of agriculture and non-agriculture definition. For this
definition gives the attribution of everyone who has
household registration, more Conveniently when register.
Topics comply with recommended?
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For through the census and surveys: No.
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In census, the members of the household don’t have
indicator of “the line number of his or her mother, and also
don’t have the survival of parents”.
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In surveys, besides the lacks above, the women 15 and over
don’t have the total number of children ever born alive and
so on. Just have the childbearing information in the last year.
The coverage of civil
registration?
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In China, the civil registration comprise the live birth, the
death, the cause of death, the maternal and child health, the
marriage and the divorce.
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For live birth and death, we can assess the coverage with
different source of civil registration data and census or survey.
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For other data, we don’t have direct source of data to make
the assessment, we can assess them with the previous data
and make analysis with population at risk.
Quality assessment methods in the
vital statistics system?
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Yes, but not institutionalized.
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For the live birth, there are three kinds of registration and
also the census or survey for the live birth, so we can
compare these data in county or level, but I think only a part
of counties have made the assessment, for there isn’t a
institution to coordinate.
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For the death, we can compare the death data from the
health institution and the public security institution, the
funeral data from the civil affairs institution and the census
or survey.
Possible Strategies
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The coordinating. Including the standard and institution. Better
to establish a independent body or assign one specific agency
to carry out the coordinating work.
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Need national network, and share to other agencies. For that, a
comprehensive database based on unique identity card
number is projected, in which all civil registrations are included
and the data will update on time.
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The application of unified definition, for example the
rural/urban definition by NBS.