Introduciton

Vital registration system is defined as a continuous, permanent and compulsory

legal registration and statistical recording of vital events which include: birth,
death, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, migration, adoption, etc. primarily for
their value as legal document and secondarily for their usefulness as a source of
population statistics. It is also known as civil registration system. First VRS
Records of vital events like birth, deaths was kept in the church in 1563 AD. It
was first introduced in Nepal in 2019 BS (1962 AD) through enactment of law. Vital
registration done by my family are Birth Registration and Marige Registration. It's
characteristics are:
It is an important mechanism to study dynamism of
population
Record is kept to fill certain forms separately for registration
of vital events under this system
Vital events are registered regularly under this system
This system is found in matured stage in developed countries.
In developing countries, it still shows some immaturity.
It excludes the entire process up to publication from data
collection
It is to be supposed the primary source of population data
At first, events are registered, then certified and finally,
certificate is given