Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Australasia

Learn about Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Australasia (CRVSA), what they do and how to contact them.

About CRVSA

CRVSA includes representatives from:

CRVSA works across regions to improve how Australia records key life events like births, deaths, and marriages.

The body's role is to create policies and initiatives for a seamless, unified, and reliable system that works across all levels of government.

The 3 key objectives are to:

improve how the national civil registration and statistics systems work together
understand what users need from the data and make it easier to access
advocate and support CRVSA as a unified group to strengthen Australia's civil registration and vital statistics system.

CRVSA has achieved several important initiatives, such as:

setting up the Australian Coordinating Registry (ACR) to manage and share national datasets through government agreements
providing 2 national death datasets through Queensland RBDM as the ACR:
- fact of death – used by government agencies to clean data
- cause of death – used for research and official statistics
creating consistent national data access principles for registries across Australia
developing national standards to fix inconsistencies in birth and death datasets and improve vital statistics
sharing vital data with New Zealand and Pacific countries to improve data systems and help with policy and cross-border issues
launching the Australian Death Check service to help organisations and agencies clean data. This service is available through authorised brokers.

Use the form to contact CRVSA if you have an questions about: