Agenda for this session:
- Welcome, housekeeping, opening remarks, current state of play on reporting of completeness in the region: Ms Petra Nahmias, Chief, Population and Social Statistics Section, Statistics Division, ESCAP
- Introduction to the guidelines: Mr. Thomas Moultrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Georgia’s experience in estimating completeness of vital events: Ms. Shorena Tsiklauri, GEOSTAT, Georgia
- Bhutan’s experience with estimating completeness in the context of the production of the first vital statistics report: Mr. Tashi Dorjee, National Statistics Bureau, Bhutan
- Australia’s experience with estimating completeness for specific population groups: Ms. Lauren Moran, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia
- Estimating inequality in death registration completeness in Matlab, Bangladesh: Mr. M. Moinuddin Haider, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh
- Q and A
Backgroud
As part of the proclamation of the Asia and Pacific Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Decade (2015-2024), governments in the region requested that further regional action be taken to support the improvement of CRVS systems. The regional action framework responds to that request as a catalyst for governments and development partners to focus and accelerate their efforts to realize a shared vision and the three CRVS goals outlined in the framework during the Decade. The mid-term review, and accompanying technical report, of progress made by countries in the Asia-Pacific region since the beginning of the Decade was able to demonstrate significant achievements in many countries in the region, yet with identified shortcomings in countries’ ability to evaluate the completeness of their civil registration systems, as well as capability and capacity gaps in this sphere.
To address this gap, ESCAP has produced guidelines on measuring the completeness of CRVS data. The guidelines, with an associated toolkit, are designed to provide in-country practitioners with the essential skills to evaluate and estimate the completeness of their civil registration systems, with a focus on births and deaths.
This Stats Café will mark the launch of these guidelines and will look at the experiences of countries in estimating completeness of vital events and discuss the way forward.