Civil Registration

• In February 27, 1931, Act No.
3753, known as the “Civil Registry

Law of 1930”, took effect. Significant reforms with the passing
of this law included:
(1) enumeration of acts and events concerning civil status of
person which shall be recorded in the civil register,
(2) the director of National Library was designated as the ex-
officio Civil Registrar,
(3) except in the city of Manila where civil registration function
was continued to be performed by the City Health Officer, the
civil registration function in other cities and all municipalities
was performed by the city and municipal treasurers.
•The Civil Registration and Vitals Statistics or CRVS
systems records statistics about life events such as
births, deaths, marriages and divorces.
•It provides the legal identity of a person to have
access to government and private services such as,
but not limited to education, health and welfare
support, travel documents issuance and etc.
• From the 17th century until Spanish rule ended in
1898, individual parish and diocesans were
required by the Catholic Church to keep books of
baptisms, marriages and deaths.
• In 1930, the Civil Registration Law was ratified,
establishing civil registration as a public service
and making the registration of all vital events
compulsory.
• The Bureau of Census and Statistics was
established in 1940 and its Director made the
Civil Registrar General, the National Library was
responsible for keeping civil registration records.
Today, this law remains the mainstay of the legal
framework of CRVS in the Philippines.
• The Local Government Code of 1991 entrenched
civil registration functions with Local Civil
Registrars (LCR), while retaining the technical
oversight of the National Statistics Office (NSO).
• In 2000, the NSO entered into a Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) with Unisys to computerize
the civil registration system. Unisys would
provide ongoing training, equipment and
software for the NSO to manage, enumerate
and issue certificates for civil registration
records, while in return they would receive a
fixed portion of the fee paid to the NSO for
replacement certificates.
• On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda)
made landfall in the Philippines’ Eastern Visayas Region, causing
much destruction. As a result of Haiyan, many individuals lost their
civil registration documents, including birth certificates, which are
crucial for obtaining government benefits and accessing basic
services.
• In April 2014, the Department of Social Welfare and Development
and PSA launched a mobile registration project with Initiatives for
Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services
(IDEALS), a nongovernmental organization, and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The aim is to reach out to
100 000 people in the provinces of Leyte, Samar and Eastern Samar
to replace damaged or lost birth, marriage and death certificates.
The head of the PSA, the
National Statistician,
concurrently serves as the
Civil Registrar General of the
Philippines and thus is the
individual with overall
responsibility for CRVS in
the Philippines.
QUIZ
1. What is CRVS?
2. What is the function of CRVS?
3. This refers to the law that ratified the
implementation of CRVS.
a. Civil Registrar Bill of 1940
b. Civil Registration Law of 1930
c. National Statistics Office
d. The Local Government Code of 1991
4. In early 2014, the NSO, National
Statistical Coordination Board, Bureau of
Labor and Employment Statistics, and
the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
merged into the
________________________.
5. What was the aim of the DSWD and
PSA when they launched a mobile
registration project with Initiatives for
Dialogue and Empowerment through
Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS), a
nongovernmental organization, and the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR)?
The (6). ________________ reports to the
Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning
and ultimately to the PSA Board, which is
the highest policy-making body on all
statistical matters in the Philippines, and
currently, the (6) of the Philippines is
(7)_______________.
8. Civil Registry Documents is important
for ____________ in the Foreign
Embassies in the Philippines.
9. This refers to the desktop software platform developed
by the PSA for LCRs to encode civil registration certificates,
store civil registration records electronically as the local civil
registry database, query and retrieve encoded records,
produce vital statistics and generate data files that can be
transmitted to the PSA for archiving and statistical
purposes
a. Civil Registration System
b. Barangay Civil Registration System
c. Philippine Civil Registry System
d. Decentralized Vital Statistics System
10. The _______ provides a basis for
Barangay officials to actively monitor
pregnancies, and maternal and neonatal
deaths.
a. Civil Registration System
b. Barangay Civil Registration System
c. Philippine Civil Registry System
d. Decentralized Vital Statistics System
Births and deaths must be reported to the
LCR office within (11). _______ days and
marriages within (12). _______ days
13. The fact that a child is born out of wedlock
is noted on their birth certificate and requires
a ______________ from the father that may
require a fee depending on the LCR.
14. At present, it takes ____________ for
national vital statistics based on civil
registration records to be produced and
publicly available.
15-16. How are geography and population a
challenge for the CRVS?
17-18. How can we strengthen our CRVS
system?

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• In February 27, 1931, Act No.

3753, known as the “Civil Registry

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