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Principles and Recommendations

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Civil registration and vital statistics
  Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 2 (2001)
  SALES NO.: 01.XVII.10    
LANGUAGES:

Arabic (PDF 5.9 MB) French (PDF 1.3 MB)

 Chinese (PDF 1.7 MB) Russian (PDF 2.1 MB) English (PDF 1.4 MB) Spanish (PDF 1.7 MB)
       
  Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 1 (1973)
  SALES NO.: 73.XVII.9    
LANGUAGES:

Arabic
French

 Chinese
Russian		 English (PDF 9.5 MB)
Spanish (PDF 10.5 MB)
       
  Principles for a Vital Statistics System (1953)
  SALES NO.: 1953.XVII.8    
LANGUAGES:

Arabic
French

 Chinese
Russian		 English (PDF 1.8 MB)
Spanish
       
International migration
  Recommendations on Statistics of International Migration, Revision 1 (1998)
  SALES NO.: 98.XVII.14
LANGUAGES: Arabic (PDF 10.8 MB)
French (PDF 7.7 MB)		 Chinese (PDF 16.2 MB)
Russian (PDF 17.5 MB)		 English (PDF 390 KB)
Spanish (PDF 8 MB)
       
Population and housing censuses
  Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 2 (2008)
  SALES NO.: E.07.XVII.8
LANGUAGES: Arabic
French		 Chinese
Russian (67 MB) 		English (2.5 MB)
Spanish
       
  Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 1 (1998)
  SALES NO.: 98.XVII.8
LANGUAGES: Arabic (PDF 32 MB)
French (PDF 29 MB)		 Chinese (PDF 29.7 MB)
Russian (PDF 47 MB)		 English (PDF 1.2 MB)
Spanish (PDF 29.5 MB)
       
  Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses (1980) 
  SALES NO.: 80.XVII.8
LANGUAGES: Arabic
French		 Chinese
Russian		 English
Spanish
       


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