Use of Korea Resident Registration System to Produce Timely Vital Statistics - presented at the UN World Data Forum 2017

1. Use of Korea Resident Registration System
to Produce Timely Vital Statistics
Kyung Ae Park, Ph.D.
Korea Statistics Promotion Institute
kay2@naver.com
UN World Data Forum
Jan.15-18, 2017, South Africa

2. • The Framework of CRVS
• Data Collection of Vital Events
- Cause of Death Statistics
- Infant, Maternal, Fetal, and Perinatal Death
• Data Release
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Contents

3. The Framework of CRVS

4. Components of CRVS
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FRR(Family Relationship Registration=Family Registration) is
to register and certify changes in family relationships
birth, death, and marriage, and so forth.
RR (Resident Registration) is to carry out public services
through the assessment of residential relationship
- RIN (Residential Identification Number) is issued
VS(Vital Statistics) is to provide basic data for policies
- PCS (Population Change Survey=Vital Events Survey)
is conducted based on FRR
- Covers citizens living abroad as well as within Korea

5. Development of CRVS: Related Acts
• Korea’s CRVS system evolved progressively relying on two
tools: (1) legal and institutional arrangement ; and (2)
digitization.
• CRVS related Acts include the Act on the Registration of
Family Relationships (2008), the Resident Registration Act
(1962), and the Statistics Act (1962).
• CMIS (Civil Management Information System) related Acts
include the Framework Act on National Informatization, the
Electronic Government Act, Acts related to Privacy
Protection and Cybersecurity, and the Personal Information
Protection Act.
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6. • The RR system manages information on the residency of
citizens according to the 1962 RR Act
• Purposes : (1) strengthening national security; (2)
providing efficient management of citizen’s residential
information; and (3) providing social services to
residents.
• Development stages:
- Institutionalization (1962~1986): 13 digit RIN (1975)
- Digitization(1987~2000): RR DB and Digitization RR data
- Online services (2001~): Online RR service G4C (2001),
AISS (2007), Minwon 24 (2010)
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Resident Registration System

7. Resident Identification Number
• RIN (Resident Identification Number): 13 digits
- Personally unique registration number that
government issues to uniquely identify each
citizen
- Contains information on date of birth, sex,
region of birth or registration
- Medium through which personal information
can be shared through the administrative
information sharing system (AISS)
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8. History of VS Production System
• 1962 : Established Statistics Act and the Enforcement
Decree of Statistics Act for Vital Statistics
• 1970 : Integration of FRR Items and Vital Events Items
• 1997: Statistics Korea computerized Local Data Entry
and Transmission System (1987-91:VS DB)
• 2004 : VS Data Entry System linked to FRR (2003-07: FRR DB)
• 2008: FRR linked with Web-based VS System
• 2011: FRR linked with RR System
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9. Parents
B. Certificate
Off-line
Individual
Off-line
Relatives
D. Certificate
Off-line
City/County/District Office
Birth Death Marriage
Divorce
Civil Registration and VS System
Migrant
On/Off line
Residential
Movement
RR System
Supreme Court
FRR System
Statistics Korea
Vital Statistics System
On-lineOn-lineOn-line
Ministry of Interior
Resident Registration
Statistics (Res. Pop)
Vital Statistics

10. The Structure of CRVS Governance
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AIS
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Maintaining consistency of CRVS
information through the
synchronization of FRR and RR data
Statistics Korea
KOSIS

11. Data Collection and
Release of Vital Statistics

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13. •
Births
• Date of Registration, Sex, Name, Address, Marital status of Parents,
Date of Birth, Birth date of Parents, RIN of Parents, etc
Death
• Date of Registration, Name, Address, Date of Death,
name and RIN of reporter, reporter’s relationship.
Marriage
• Date of Registration, Name, Address and RIN of the Parties
Divorce
• Date of Registration, Name, Address and RIN of the Parties
Common Registration Items of FRR and VS
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14. Registration Items of Birth
(including Certificate)
 Details of the Child
• Date and Time of birth, Place of Birth, Birth Order, Plurality,
Birth Order of Plural Births, Birth Weight, Term of Gestation
 Details of the Parents
• Nationality, Birth Date, Education, occupation,
(Parents) Beginning Date of Actual Marriage,
(Mother) Number of Living Children Born to the Mother,
Total Number of Children Born (if different)
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15. Registration Items of Death
(including Certificate)
 Details of the Death
• Date and Time of Death, Place of Death, Sex, Nationality,
Education, Job, Marital Status
 The Cause of Death
• the Cause of Death, Type of Death, Time and
Place of Injury, Period from disease incidence to death,
Intention of Injury
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16. • Details of the Persons (Marriage)
Nationality, Starting Date of Living Together,
Type of Marriage, Education, occupation
(Remarriage) Date of Dissolution of Previous Marriage
• Details of the Parties (Divorce)
Type of Divorce (Mutual Consent, Court Judgment), Number of
Dependents, Reason for Divorce, Education, occupation
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Registration Items of Marriage & Divorce

17. Citizen Cites/Counties/Districts Statistics Korea
Data
Entering
(FRR and
VS System)
Error check
B, D, M, D
Registration
form with
B. & D.
Certificate
Analyzing
Compiling
and
Editing
Who
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Within 30 daysBirth, Death : 30 days
Marriage :no Time limit
Divorce: 30(90) days
Within 60 days
Monthly (Quarterly) Vital Statistics
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N
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Birth, Death
(Preliminary)
Marriage,
Divorce
Birth Death
Cause of Death
Life Tables
February April August September December
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Data Processing for Vital Statistics
Releasing
Online
Submission
of entered
data
Data error check monthly & yearly

18. Process of CoD Statistsics
Data entry
(Vital statistics
system)
Analysis
(Classification,
Editing)
Aggregation
(ICD-10)
Disseminati
on
(KOSIS, MDSS)
Medical
certificate of
death (post-
mortem
examination)
Death
registration
form(VS system)
Other
supplement data
Data linking with
22 administrative
data from 16
agencies using
RIN
Coding from
death condition
to ICD-10 code
Determining the
underlying cause
of death
Tabulating by
WHO ICD-10
recommendation
for international
comparison
News release
Annual report
On-line
database(KOSIS)
Micro-
data(MDSS)
(9 months after
the occurrence
year)

19. Data Collection of Infant, Maternal, Fetal,
and Perinatal Deaths
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20. Release of Vital Statistics
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21. Contents of VS Publications
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Monthly Statistics: Numbers of Births, Deaths, Marriages,
Divorces by cities/provinces
Quarterly Statistics:
-Birth: TFR by cities/provinces
-Death: Age-sex-specific death rates by cities/provinces
-Marriage(Divorce):
Age-sex-specific marriage (Divorce) rates for nation
Crude marriage(Divorce) rates by cities/provinces
Annual Statistics:
- Details of births, deaths, marriages, divorces by
cities/counties/districts
- Cause of Death Statistics, Life Tables, and Infant, Fetal,
Perinatal Statistics by cities/provinces

22. References
• Korea-World Bank Partnership Facility(2016)
Korea: An Integrated System of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics
• Ministry of Interior of Korea, http://www.minwon.go.kr;
http://rcps.egov.go.kr:8081
• Park, Kyung Ae (2001), “Examination on data for the estimation of
Infant mortality level,” Journal of the Korean Population
Association,” 24(1): 67-90.
• Statistics Korea
- http://kostat.go.kr, http://kosis.kr , http://mdis.kostat.go.kr
• Supreme Court of Korea
- http://efamily.scourt.go.kr
• UN Population Division’s Meeting on Vital Statistics(2016)
- http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/
events/expert- group/26/index.shtml
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