Strengthening civil registration and vital statistics in the Asia-Pacific region: Learning from country experiences

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-73

  Abouzahr, Carla ^a   Azimi, Said Yaqoob ^b   Bersales, Lisa Grace S ^c   Chandramouli, Chandrasekaran ^d   Hufana, Lourdes ^e   Khan, Khalid ^f   Kulkayeva, Gulnara ^g   Marskell, Jonathan ^h   Sauyekenova, Lyaziza ^g  

^a Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative   (Switzerland)

^b Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

^c National Statistician   (Philippines)

^d Ministry of Home Affairs   (India)

^e National Statistics Office   (Philippines)

^f National Database and Registration Authority   (Pakistan)

^g Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^h NONE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; GOVERNMENT; LEARNING; RECORD; STATISTICAL DATA;

AFGHANISTAN; INDIA; KAZAKHSTAN; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 84976285389     PISSN: 0259238X     EISSN: 15644278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18356/a906ccf5-en     Document Type: Article

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