Registration Office

https://publicschema.org/RegistrationOffice

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A service point where civil or administrative registration services are delivered, such as a civil registration office, a district branch, a mobile registration unit, a refugee registration center, or an identity enrollment center. RegistrationOffice specializes ServicePoint for the registration and identity domain and carries additional properties for the functional category of the office and for the jurisdictional coverage of the office. RegistrationOffice is domain-agnostic at the root level: it covers civil registration (birth, death, marriage), refugee and asylum registration, and national identity enrollment, which cuts across social protection, CRVS, and humanitarian workflows. It is distinct from the Organization that operates it (captured via managed_by) and from its administrative location (captured via located_at). The CRVS domain uses RegistrationOffice as the physical facility where civil registrars operate; the same concept serves humanitarian identity programs and social protection enrollment offices.

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Supertypes

ServicePoint

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Name from ServicePoint string
The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product.
Identifiers from ServicePoint concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Classification
Service point type from ServicePoint string (service-point-type)
The category of service this point provides (health, education, distribution, WASH, etc.).
Registration office type string (registration-office-type)
The functional category of a registration office (civil registration office, district branch, mobile unit, refugee registration center, or identity enrollment center).
Operational status from ServicePoint string (facility-operational-status)
Whether the service point is currently operational, partially operational, or non-functional.
Location
Located at from ServicePoint concept:Location The administrative or geographic location where this service point sits.
Jurisdiction string (country)
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the jurisdiction whose data protection law governs this record. Cardinality single: multi-jurisdictional records are the rare case; a follow-on ADR will lift cardinality if adopters hit it. Under joint controllership, this is the lead controller's primary establishment jurisdiction.
Governance
Managed by from ServicePoint concept:Organization
The organization that operates or manages this service point (government agency, NGO, UN agency, private provider).

Evidence

Present in 1 of 6 mapped delivery systems.

RegistrationOffice is informed primarily by the OpenCRVS office and location management model, which distinguishes CRVS_OFFICE (a civil registration facility) from ADMIN_STRUCTURE (an administrative location). No other v1 convergence system carries a first-class RegistrationOffice concept at this level of specification, though UNHCR refugee registration operational frameworks and national civil registration systems manage equivalent entities. A broader convergence pass including UNHCR ProGres and national CRVS platform data is expected to raise the system_count.

Standard Equivalent Match
schema.org GovernmentOffice close
schema.org GovernmentOffice is a subtype of LocalBusiness and Place, covering government offices broadly. PublicSchema RegistrationOffice is narrower (only registration and identity services) and is modelled as a ServicePoint (physical facility) rather than as an organization. The overlap on government registration premises is close; the organizational side and the WASH/distribution scopes diverge.

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