| Civil registration and data capture |
| CRVS administration | | Definitions of vital events, residents, notifiers, reporting periods Lead/support institutions for registration and vital statistics Institutional responsibilities and reporting relationships
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| CRVS business processes | | Rules and procedures for notification/registration Notification forms/ registers/civil status certificates Mapped sequence of registration activities and information flow
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| Cause of death ascertainment | | Medical certification/verbal autopsy instruments and manuals Protocols for coronial/forensic review for unnatural deaths Coding and classification schemes for causes of death
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| Data compilation and use of vital statistics |
| Data processing and management | | Electronic databases and instructions for computerisation Facilities for data archival and transmission Guidelines for monitoring for reporting timeliness and accuracy
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| Quality evaluation | | Data plausibility assessment Estimation of proportion of reported deaths (completeness) Cause of death validation (percentage ‘well-certified’)
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| Data utilisation | | Demographic mortality indicators Epidemiological analysis of causes of death Burden of disease/cost effectiveness analysis
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