civil-status-record-type
The type of acte represented by a civil status record. Covers the standard vital event actes and court-ordered substitutes used when original records are missing or were never created.
https://publicschema.org/vocab/crvs/civil-status-record-type
Aligned standards
| Standard | Equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| OpenCRVS v1 GraphQL | Event | narrow |
| OpenCRVS models three event types (birth, death, marriage) while PublicSchema models six; the OpenCRVS set is a strict subset of ours. | ||
Values
| Code | Label | Standard code | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
birth | Birth | A birth acte recording the birth of a person. | |
marriage | Marriage | A marriage acte recording a marriage between two parties. | |
death | Death | A death acte recording the death of a person. | |
paternity_recognition | Paternity recognition | An acte recording a parent's legal recognition of paternity or parentage for a child, most often outside of marriage. | |
supplementary_judgment | Supplementary judgment | A court judgment issued in place of a missing original acte, typically used in civil law systems when a birth was never registered or the record was lost. | |
court_ordered_substitute | Court ordered substitute | A record created by court order to substitute for an original acte that cannot be produced, in jurisdictions using a mechanism similar to the jugement supplétif. |
System mappings
OpenCRVS
System vocabulary: Event
| System code | System label | civil-status-record-type value |
|---|---|---|
birth | Birth | birth |
death | Death | death |
marriage | Marriage | marriage |
Not covered by OpenCRVS: paternity_recognition, supplementary_judgment, court_ordered_substitute