Registration Office Type
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The functional category of a civil or administrative registration office, distinguishing general civil registration offices from specialized sub-offices, mobile registration units, and refugee or IDP registration centers. Based on office-type patterns from OpenCRVS and UNHCR operational frameworks.
Values
| Code | Label | Standard code | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
civil_registration_office | Civil registration office | A government office with legal authority to register vital events (births, deaths, marriages, divorces) and issue civil registration certificates. The primary CRVS_OFFICE type in national civil registration systems. | |
district_registration_office | District registration office | A sub-national or district-level branch of the civil registration authority, operating under the authority of a national or provincial civil registrar and covering a defined administrative area. | |
mobile_registration_unit | Mobile registration unit | A non-fixed registration team or vehicle that travels to remote or underserved communities to deliver civil registration or identity enrollment services. Used in outreach campaigns and disaster-response contexts. | |
refugee_registration_center | Refugee registration center | An office where UNHCR or a national authority conducts refugee status determination and registration, issuing asylum-seeker or refugee identity documents. Typically operated in collaboration with national refugee agencies. | |
identity_enrollment_center | Identity enrollment center | A service point dedicated to biometric or documentary identity enrollment for a national ID, social protection, or voter registration program, distinct from civil registration of vital events. | |
other | Other | A registration office type not covered by the other categories. |
Other references
- OpenCRVS Office and Location Management prose guidance OpenCRVS models civil registration offices with a CRVS_OFFICE type distinct from administrative locations (ADMIN_STRUCTURE). This vocabulary follows the same conceptual split while adding humanitarian registration office types from UNHCR practice.