crvs:Parent

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A crvs/Person subtype that captures a parental role alongside the inherited person-of-record properties. Used on Birth, Adoption, PaternityRecognition, and Legitimation so that biological and legal parentage can be captured explicitly rather than collapsed into a single parent slot. A Parent instance is scoped to a single event context: the parental_role, establishment_basis, and certificate_label recorded here are the values asserted at the time of that event. Reusing the same Parent instance across multiple events would break snapshot semantics because the role or establishment basis may differ. The canonical way to assert parenthood across contexts is via Relationship records between Person instances, while Parent captures a point-in-time declaration tied to an event. The parental_role property carries the role-nature (biological, gestational, legal, or adoptive), decoupled from gender. The establishment_basis property captures the legal route by which parentage was established (for example, marital presumption, voluntary recognition, or adoption order). The certificate_label property is a free-text field for the jurisdiction-specific label that must appear on the printed certificate.

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Supertypes

Person

Properties

Property Type Definition
Person from Person concept:Person A reference to the individual Person this record relates to.
Nationality from Person string (country)
The country of citizenship or nationality, expressed as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code where possible.
Occupation from Person string (occupation)
The person's primary occupation, classified according to the ISCO-08 sub-major groups.
Education level from Person string (education-level) The highest level of formal education completed by a person.
Marital status from Person string (marital-status) The marital or civil status of a person as recorded in an administrative system.
Literacy from Person string (literacy)
Whether the person can, with understanding, both read and write a short simple statement on everyday life.
Religion from Person string
The religion, religious denomination, or sect of the person, as self-identified. No international classification exists; countries define their own value sets.
Ethnic group from Person string
The ethnic or cultural group of the person, as self-identified. The UNSD recommends nationally defined categories based on self-identification; no international classification exists.
Employment status from Person string (employment-status)
The labour force participation status of the person: whether they are employed, unemployed, or outside the labour force.
Status in employment from Person string (status-in-employment)
The type of employment relationship: whether the person is an employee, employer, own-account worker, contributing family worker, or cooperative member.
Industry from Person string
The branch of economic activity in which the person works, classified according to the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC Rev.4). Too large to enumerate; countries use national adaptations.
Place of usual residence from Person concept:Location
The usual place of residence of the person at the time of the vital event. Used by national statistics offices to allocate vital events to the place where people live, not only where events occur.
Age at event from Person integer
The stated age of the person at the time of the vital event. Used in low-completeness settings where date of birth is unknown and stated age is the only age data available.
Parental role string (crvs/parental-role)
The role-nature of the parent relationship (biological, gestational, legal, or adoptive), decoupled from gender. Makes the nature of parentage explicit and separable from the parent's identity. For jurisdictions requiring gendered or positional labels on the printed certificate, use certificate_label alongside this property.
Establishment basis string (crvs/parent-establishment-basis)
The legal route by which the parent's parentage was established: marital presumption, voluntary recognition, judicial declaration, adoption order, or surrogacy order. Complements parental_role, which captures the role-nature (biological, gestational, legal, adoptive); establishment_basis captures the mechanism.
Certificate label string
A free-text field carrying the role label as it must appear on the printed legal certificate. Jurisdictions that require gendered designations (for example, 'mother', 'father') or positional labels ('parent 1', 'parent 2') on the certificate use this field. The underlying role-nature is already carried on parental_role; certificate_label is purely a display hint for document generation.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 event service No v1 equivalent none
OpenCRVS v2 uses declaration field-key conventions (e.g. mother.*, father.*) with roles implicit in field names rather than a reified link entity. Adoptive, legal, and gestational roles are not representable in v1.

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