Malaysia: Resilience of Vital Statistics production during the COVID-19 pandemic
Malaysia has made important progress in the production of vital statistics in the country over the past few years.
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Malaysia has made important progress in the production of vital statistics in the country over the past few years.
The Philippines Statistical Authority publishes population data from a variety of sources such as censuses, surveys, and a civil registration system with relatively high completeness.
The COVID-19 crisis has brought significant challenge to the delivery of CRVS services.
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These annexes present the answers from countries to the questionnaire that was sent to them.
To provide some context to the data presented, ESCAP has prepared a document where you will find a detailed account of the process through which this data was collected, the detailed definition of the variables and the methodology of some of the analyses presented in the report.
This chapter takes stock of all the analyses presented throughout the previous chapters, and highlights how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched after the declaration of the Decade, acknowledges civil registration as a basis for legal identity and requires good quality vital statistics to monitor progress towards the SDGs.
The Regional Action Framework, agreed on in 2014 and which guides activities during the Asian and Pacific Decade, includes a list of implementation steps to support countries on the path to universal registration.