Civil Registration System (CRS)

Civil Registration is a continuous, permanent, compulsory recording of the occurrence and characteristics of vital events, like births, deaths and still births. These vital statistics are invaluable for planning, monitoring and evaluating various programmes related to primary health care, family planning, maternal and child health, education etc. Nevertheless, information collected through registration process about vital events provides useful and important statistics. Vital Statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System’ provides an overview of the working of the Civil Registration System (CRS) in the country and presents a compilation of data on registered births, deaths, infant deaths and still births with rural-urban & sex-wise break-up and sex ratio at birth based on Civil Registration Records.

民事登记（Civil Registration）是对出生、死亡、死产等生命事件的发生情况与特征进行的持续、永久且强制性的记录工作。此类生命统计数据对于规划、监测与评估初级卫生保健、计划生育、妇幼保健、教育等各类相关项目具有不可替代的重要价值。不过，通过登记流程收集的生命事件相关信息，可生成极具实用价值的核心统计数据。《基于民事登记系统的印度生命统计数据》对印度国内民事登记系统（Civil Registration System, CRS）的运行情况进行了概述，并汇编了基于民事登记记录的已登记出生、死亡、婴儿死亡与死产数据，包含城乡、性别维度的分类统计结果，以及出生性别比相关指标。