| Vital records are the recordings of a person's | | | | is responsible for looking after its members. Many |
| birth certificates, marriage or divorce license, and | | | | of the European countries are its members where |
| death certificates. In some legislation, domestic | | | | it serves a mutually accepted coding given in the |
| partners and civil unions are also included in the | | | | Civil Status Documents. Member countries can |
| record. Generally, vital records are maintained by | | | | take the benefit of translation tables and common |
| the officer of municipal-level of the government | | | | codes from there. |
| under the jurisdiction of state law. In some | | | | Role of NOVS in keeping vital records |
| countries, the civil registry department keeps such | | | | The NOVS (National Office of Vital Statistics) is |
| records. | | | | responsible for sorting out the development |
| In the United States, vital records include | | | | programs for health and vital records for the |
| assortment, arrangement, and publication of data | | | | purpose of health programs, legislative planning, |
| such as birth, marriage, divorce, death, morbidity | | | | and demographic investigations. This is done in a |
| reports, and fetal death. Except the morbidity, the | | | | way that coordination can be maintained within |
| other facts, in times, act as legitimate proof. The | | | | the departments to adjust, refine, and develop |
| assortment, processing, and evaluation of vital | | | | such records for those who need it. The state |
| records are preserved by a procedure where the | | | | and health department are the main channels |
| government, local and state agencies play their | | | | through which one can access to this information. |
| due role. | | | | In order to keep the vital records comparable |
| This huge amount of data contains accurate | | | | over the time frame, NOVS is very much |
| information on the economic enterprises, health | | | | responsible for the update, refine, and store of |
| programs, education, social welfare, and | | | | the statistical data. |
| demographic analysis. The data regarding marriage | | | | It should also be noted that vital records, if not |
| and divorce, birth and death, and transmittable | | | | carefully maintained or gets lost, could bring out |
| diseases are also simple to record. Unlike recording | | | | severe loss to a country and to a nation. So, |
| of individual basis, the states bring out summary | | | | there is a need of an orderly negotiation between |
| and add it up. | | | | state to state and state to Federal Departments, |
| Role of International Commission on Civil Status in | | | | because without these records of states, cities, |
| keeping vital records | | | | territory, national offices can not be maintained |
| In Europe, International Commission on Civil Status | | | | accurately. |