Civil Status Record Type

https://publicschema.org/vocab/crvs/civil-status-record-type

draft

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.

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Aligned standards

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 country config (Farajaland) EventDocument.type (country-configured string) narrow
In v2 EventDocument.type is a country-configured string; Farajaland defines birth/death/marriage as event type values. PublicSchema models six record types; the three shared values align and the v2 set is a 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: EventDocument.type (country-configured string)

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

Referenced by this vocabulary

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