How the lives of individual citizens are affected by the civil registration system is well documented by the three prominent Philippine attorneys who wrote the articles included in this Technical Paper. One of these attorneys Rene L Cayetano was recently appointed by President Ramos as Chief Presidential Legal Counsel.
These papers were originally presented at the 3rd National Convention on Civil Registration held in Cebu City, Philippines, April 4-7, 1995 and sponsored by the Office of the Civil Registrar General and National Statistics Office.
The technical paper was published in 1997 (#70) by IIVRS.