Demographic and Social Statistics

Curriculum

Webinars on COVID-19 impact on civil registration and vital statistics are organized in order to address (a) international standards for civil registration and vital statistics and their implementation in countries/areas; (b) impact on the operations and maintenance of civil registration and production of vital statistics in the time of COVID-19 pandemic; (c) short- and long-term consequences on registration of vital events due to the pandemic, and (d) beyond COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring universal civil registration of all vital events and production of comprehensive, reliable and regular vital statistics. The format of the set of webinars: three 40-minute sessions, spread over a week, with participation of civil registrars and statisticians from ten countries/areas, for a total of twenty participants at sub-regional level. Sessions consist of initial presentation, not extending beyond twenty minutes, followed by discussion and question and answer time.

Webinar No.1

Theme: International standards, methodological framework for civil registration and vital statistics and the UN Legal Identity Agenda
Webniar No.1 Video
Presentation by UN LIA

• Presentation
• - International standards, principles and recommendations
• - Role of civil registration
• - Essential features of civil registration
• - Production of vital statistics
• - UN LIA model integrating civil registration, vital statistics and identity management

Webinar No.2

Theme: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on civil registration and vital statistics
Webniar No.2 Video
Presentation by SPC & UNLIA

• Presentation
• - Report on the impact of COVID-19 on civil registration in participating countries as reported to the UN LIA survey, at: https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/COVID-19/
• - Recommendations - Maintaining Civil Registration and Vital Statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic
• - Possible consequences - completeness, accuracy, delays

Presentation by UN LIA

• - Recommendations - Maintaining Civil Registration and Vital Statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic
• - Possible consequences - completeness, accuracy, delays

Webinar No.3

Theme: Beyond the COVID-19 pandemic
Webniar No.3 Video
Presentation by UN LIA

• - Ensuring universal registration of events during the height of the pandemic
• - Delayed registration, corrections, amendments
• - Production of reliable vital statistics
• - Implementing UN LIA agenda, holistic approach to civil registration, vital statistics and identity management
• - Digitization, population registers