Definition: Complete civil registration
Social statistics
When every vital event that has occurred to the members of the population of a particular country (or area), within a specified period, has been registered in the civil registration system, i.e., has a vital registration record. Thus the system has attained 100 per cent coverage. Any deviation from complete coverage is measured by "coverage error".
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Training in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems", Studies in Methods, Series F, No. 84, New York, 2002
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