The United Nations Statistical Commission, at its twentysixth session held in 1991, after considering a report on the state of the civil registration and vital statistics systems that pointed out their stagnation in the ...

Interest in the efficiency and improvement of civil registration system surfaced, in the African region, during the 1970's. The central focus of this interest was, and continues to be, how to ensure that the system would ...

This paper presents, first, an overview to collect vital statistics and rates through the civil registration method, followed by the various approaches to collect fertility, nuptiality and mortality data through population ...

La Conférence des ministres de la CEA, reconnaissant l'importance des perspectives de développement, a demande a la CEA, dans sa résolution 470(XVIII) de fournir une assistance technique aux gouvernements en vue de ...

In the light of the changes that have recently taken place or are emerging in the world and in Africa, there can be no maintaining any illusions about the centralized planning methods and practices used in Africa since the ...

The important role of information in all walks of everyday life has long been recognized. Various types of information compilation form the very basis of any research, analysis, inferences and policy planning consequently, ...