Uses of vital statistics in population policy making and evaluation : note by the ESCAP secretariat

Abstract

Demographic data play an important role in the formulation of policies and programmes on population, environment and various other aspects of socio-economic development, in the monitoring of made and in evaluating the impact of programmes, there are three major sources of demographic data –progress Basically population censuses, vital registration and household sample surveys;. No one source of data alone can be expected to meet all the statistical requirements of policy makers, rather in fact many statistics and indicators are produced from combinations of registration, census and survey data.