Transcript VIETNAM ‘S PRESENTATION • Is vital statistics produced from civil registration? No.

VIETNAM ‘S PRESENTATION
• Is vital statistics produced from civil registration?
No. Vital statistics is mainly produced from surveys,
census.
• Does the vital statistics system ensures?
– Universal coverage? If no, elaborate
Yes
– Is continuous? If no, elaborate
Yes
– Confidentiality? Elaborate on how
Yes.
+ Civil registration data can not be illegally shared with private
sector
+ Family registration conducted by Ministry of Public Security
is not disseminated
+ Statistics data public regular
• Does the vital statistics system ensures?
– Regular dissemination? Provide examples.
No.
Only Statistics data disseminated:
 Monthly report
 Quarterly report
 Annually report
• What is the role of health institutions in the system?
 Provides number of birth, foetal deaths and deaths.
 Provides cause of death for study and as requested
• Is there a body coordinating between statistics, civil
registration, health and other institutions?
No.
• Do the definitions of vital events in the vital statistics
system comply with international standards?
– If no, specify which ones and elaborate
Not all.
Example: “recognition” is the legal acknowledgement not
either voluntarily or compulsorily (just voluntarily), of
the paternity of a child born out of wedlock.
Not regulate “separation”.
Does the list of topics in the vital statistics system comply with
internationally recommended core topics?
Not includes:
• Birth weight
• Date Of Last Menstrual Period Of Mother/Gestational Age
• Month in which pregnancy prenatal care began
• Interval since last previous live birth/date of last previous live
birth
• Number of Children Born Alive to the marriage being dissolved
• Number of dependent children of divorced persons
• Mode of dissolution of previous marriage
• Type of birth
• Attendance at birth
• Certifier
• Type of certification
• What is the coverage of civil registration?
No system to assess Civil Registration
• Are any of the quality assessment methods applied in the vital statistics
system?
– If yes, which ones and how often
– If not, what are the obstacles
Have no Vital Statistics System, there are no method to assess quality
for VSS
With Statistics data:
- Monitoring on collecting information
- automatic revise system available
- International consultants are supported to assess surveys and
census quality.
Action plan
Establish legal framework
Set up a committee to coordinate between statistics, civil
registration, health and other institutions
Use international definition in collecting VS information
Use software for CR
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