Notice to Readers Evaluation of Standard Certificates
and Reports
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), U.S.
Department
of Health and Human Services, will be evaluating the U.S. Standard
Certificates and Reports of Live Birth, Death, Fetal Death,
Marriage,
Divorce, and Induced Termination of Pregnancy.
The standard certificates and reports are developed by federal
and
state vital statistics officials in a joint effort and serve as
models
for the states in developing the forms they use to report these
events. In addition to serving a variety of legal uses, the state
forms are the sources of local, state, and national
vital-statistics
data critical for program planning and evaluation in both the
public
and private sectors.
NCHS evaluates the U.S. standard forms periodically to ensure
that
the information they include meets current needs. Questionnaires
soliciting suggestions for items to be retained, deleted, added, or
modified in the standard forms will be mailed by NCHS in the final
quarter of 1984 to those persons and organizations that have
expressed
a desire to comment. To receive a questionnaire, write to the
following address, indicating which certificates or reports are of
interest: George A. Gay, Chief, Registration Methods Branch/DVS,
National Center for Health Statistics, 3700 East-West Highway, Room
1-44K, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782.
Disclaimer
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