Presentation by Josie Perez (Philippine Statistics Authority) at the High-Level Panel and technical consultations on Making the Invisible Visible: CRVS as a basis to Meeting the 2030 Gender Agenda - Ottawa, 26 February, 2018.

1. Addressing the Gender Issues
in Philippine CRVS
Josie B. Perez
Philippine Statistics Authority
Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority

2. Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority
Uses of Civil Registration Documents
• Civil registration is an ideal source of statistics on important demographic
processes such as fertility, mortality and nuptiality, which in turn, are the basic
information needed for monitoring population growth.
• While there are other sources of these data, like population censuses and
demographic sample surveys, the statistical advantages of a comprehensive civil
registration system over these other sources are as follows:
• Civil registration generates records which are relatively free from certain types of
response errors and are not subject to sampling error;
• It provides statistical data continuously for planning, administrative and research at
geographic or administrative levels that are not readily available from other
sources;
• It is relatively inexpensive because these statistics are a by-product of an
administrative process; and
• It provides an inventory of events which can be evaluated against other records
such as census data, and can also be used as basis for more intensive studies on
fertility, mortality and morbidity.

3. Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority
Vital Statistics Produced for CR Documents
Number of data items that can be disaggregated by sex:
• Birth Document – more or less 20 data items
• Marriage Document – more or less 12 data items
• Death Documents – more or less 27 data items

4. Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority
Main Issues
• Delays in producing the vital statistics due to delay submission of
documents from the local civil registrars to the Philippine Statistics
Authority; thus, affecting the computation of IMR and MMR,
tabulation of information and special releases
• Typographical errors in the entry of “Sex” in any of the civil registry
documents; thus, the quality of data released is also affected.

5. Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority
Possible Solution
• Revision of the Civil Registration Law (RA No. 3753) wherein the local civil
registrars will be directly under the PSA; to date, the LCRs are just under the
technical supervision of the PSA.
• If the law will be revised, then the modernization of the LCRO can be done like
computerization of the registration and linking to the CRS-ITP2 in order to
facilitate the early submission of the CR documents; accuracy of entries in the
birth, marriage and death documents; etc.
• Right now, there is an on-going discussion between the PSA and lawmakers for
the revision of the Civil Registration Law.
• Facilitation of the premium annotation of birth (with errors in name/sex/month
and date of birth, marriage (with errors in name of husband and/or wife) and
death (with errors in the name of the deceased person) documents.

6. Republic of the Philippines
Philippine Statistics
Authority