crvs:Civil Status Record

https://publicschema.org/crvs/CivilStatusRecord

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The official written record (acte) held by a civil registration authority that attests to a vital event. In civil-law traditions, this is the persistent legal document that accumulates marginal annotations over time and from which certificates are issued. Distinct from the vital event itself (the underlying occurrence) and from certificates (the documents produced from the record on demand).

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Properties

Property	Type	Definition
Identifiers	`concept:Identifier`	Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Record type	`string` (crvs/civil-status-record-type)	The type of civil status record: birth, marriage, death, paternity recognition, supplementary judgment (jugement supplétif), or a court-ordered substitute record. Determines which original vital event the record attests to.
Originating event	`concept:crvs/VitalEvent` includes Birth, Death, FetalDeath, Marriage, MarriageTermination, Adoption, PaternityRecognition, Legitimation	The vital event that this civil status record attests to (the birth behind a birth record, the marriage behind a marriage record, etc.). Anchors the record to its underlying occurrence.
Annotations	`concept:crvs/CivilStatusAnnotation`	Marginal annotations (mentions marginales) added to a civil status record over time as subsequent vital events occur, such as a marriage noted on a birth record.
Person	`concept:Person`	A reference to the individual Person this record relates to.
Issuing authority location	`concept:Location`	The civil registration office that issued the record, modeled as a Location. Distinct from the string-valued issuing_authority property used on generic identifiers.

Evidence

Standard	Equivalent	Match
OpenCRVS v2 event service	RegisterAction	related
RegisterAction is an ActionDocument variant (type=REGISTER) that carries the registrationNumber. This is the closest v2 core equivalent to CivilStatusRecord: the act of registration produces a legal identifier. However, RegisterAction is an action within an EventDocument, not a standalone record; the structural roles differ.

Referenced by this concept

ICCS Convention 26 International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS/CIEC), 1997
ICCS Convention 33 International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS/CIEC), 2012
UN Vital Stats Rev.3 United Nations Statistics Division, 2014

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