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E-learning on Data Cleaning for Civil Registration-Based Vital Statistics (CRVS)

New E-Learning Course!

These self-paced e-learning courses are designed to help national civil registration and vital statistics stakeholders build practical skills in cleaning and preparing birth and death registration data for the production of vital statistics. Through interactive modules and demonstrations in MS Excel (with equivalent syntax provided in Stata, SAS, and R), learners will gain hands-on experience in identifying data quality issues, standardizing data entries, creating new variables and tabulating data by key characteristics.

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Speakers - 3rd Ministerial Conference

List of speakers

Opening Remarks: Senior officials segment

Tuesday, 24 June 2025 | ESCAP HALL

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Annexes

These annexes present the answers from members and associate members of ESCAP to the questionnaire that was sent to them in June 2024.

The 2025 CRVS Decade questionnaire responses submitted by countries and territories were reviewed by ESCAP and its partners in collaboration with governments from the respective countries and territories.

The questionnaires filled by members and associate members of ESCAP are available here.

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Chapter 5: Accelerated Actions to Realize Universal and Response CRVS Systems in Asia and the Pacific

Over the past decade, Asia-Pacific countries and territories have made substantial progress in strengthening CRVS systems. This progress has been propelled by strong political will, institutional and legal reforms, technological advancements, and strategic regional collaboration. Nevertheless, major challenges persist, particularly in ensuring that hard-to-reach and marginalized populations are systematically registered and represented.

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Chapter 4: Following the Implementation Steps of the Regional Action Framework

Over the past decade, national governments have made significant progress in implementing institutional and legal reforms, enhanced business processes, capacity-building initiatives, and digital transformation to strengthen CRVS systems across Asia and the Pacific. A critical enabler of this progress has been the Regional Action Framework, which provided eight implementation steps that members and associate members of ESCAP have increasingly completed.