CIVIL REGISTRATION AND VITAL STATISTICS
SYSTEM OF VIET NAM
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Civil Registration and Vital statistic system
in Viet Nam
Civil register and
Vital statistic
systems
General
Statistic
Office
Ministry of
Justice
Ministry
of Public
security
Ministry of
Health
GENERAL STATISTIC OFFICE
Legal framework
 Laws on Statistics
 Decision issued by Prime Minister (in
2010) on National Statistical indicators
system
 Decision issued by Prime Minister (in
2012) approving the program of
National statistic surveys
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 Ministry of Planning and Investment
makes economic – social development
plan based on population data which is
public and estimated by GSO
 Population data is basis to allocate
budget for provinces
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Sources of Data
 Annual population change survey provide
indicator on population, birth, death,
migration (sample survey)
 Census conducted in 1979, 1989, 1999,
2009. The 2009 census provided population
data to communal
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Public data
 Socio – economic report monthly, quaterly
including number of population, labor force,
employment and unemployment
 Year book
 The 2009 census data warehouse
http://portal.thongke.gov.vn/KhodulieuDanso2009/
 Annual Population survey data warehouse from
2000 - 2012: http://www.gso.gov.vn/khobdds
 Processing in build meta data for all survey and
census
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3. Advantages
- If all the events are registered adequately,
this documents will provide an information
with higher sufficient and correction than
enumeration in surveys.
- The information good for both law and
statistics purposes.
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4. Infrastructure
Central level: GSO
Provincial level : PSO
District level: DSO
Data save by hard copy and data file.
5. Coordination: GSO coordinating with all
of Ministries to aggregate, check, and
disseminate National statistic indicator
system manually
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6. Quality assessment and assurance:
 Pre-test and pilot before conducting survey
 Collecting
information
at
household
is
monitored by central, provincial, district
statistical offices.
 Processing by Informatics centrals
 Verifying after the survey complete
 Supporting by international consultants in
designing sample, assessing designing sample
error, information collecting error.
Ministry of Justice
Legal framework
- Decree 158/2005 issued by Government on
civil registration and management.
- Decree 06/2012 amending and supplementing
a number of articles of the decrees on civil
registration, marriage and family and
certification.
- 2013 Circular issued by Ministry of Justice
guide lining statistical profession in justice
branch.
- Draft Law on Civil status (expected to be
passed by National Assembly in October,
2014)
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Ministry of Justice
 Sources data
- Registry books
- Separate electronic civil status databases of
different provinces.
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Ministry of Justice
Responsibility
Art 1 – Decree 158/2005:
1. Civil status means fundamental events determining the personal
status of a person from the time he/she is born to the time he/she dies.
2. Civil registration means that competent state agencies:
a/ Certify the events of birth; marriage; death; child adoption;
guardianship; recognition of father, mother, child; change, correction,
supplement, adjustment of civil status; re-determination of gender; re-
determination of ethnicity;
b/ Based on decisions of competent state agencies, write in civil status
books the events of determination of father, mother, child; change of
citizenship; divorce; annulment of illegal marriage; termination of child
adoption.
Ministry of Justice
 Coordination
- With Ministry of Health: to build Circular to guide
issuing Notice of birth paper, draft 2014-2020
Master plan for developing the health information
system.
- Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social
Affairs: Provide data on: give birth register, death
register, baby changing nationality
- General Statistic Office: send aggregation report
(with indicator in National Statistic Indicator
System)
- Unicef: UNICEF support for assessing
giving birth register situation in some area
Ministry of Justice
 Quality assessment and assurance
- MOJ printing and public across the
country and oversea representative
agency to use and keep long
- Checking and monitoring POJ, DOJ
- Building e - database and applying IT in
CR system.
- Complete legislation on civil
registration: finalizing the draft law on
Civil registration.
Ministry of Public Security
Responsibility
- Management and collecting resident
population in administrative unit
- Immigration and Out-migration
Source of data: use for management.
No public
Coordination with GSO conducting the
2009 census
Ministry of Public Security
Prime Minister promulgated the Decree
on national population database and is
now in the process of collecting the
necessary data.
Coverage: all population
Ministry of Health
Population and family plan Agency
colleting information on: live birth,
death, infant death, infant mortality,
maternal death….
Data source keep at central, provincial,
district level
Population was public annually after
GSO verifying
Coordinating with GSO collecting
indicator: give birth, death, maternal
death
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