Appendix B — Resources

B.1 CRVS

B.1.1 Guidance

• UNICEF. (2013). Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and trends in birth registration. https://data.unicef.org/resources/every-childs-birth-right-inequities-and-trends-in-birth-registration/
• United Nations. (2014). Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System - Revision 3. Statistical Papers, Series M No. 19/Rev.3 (pp. 1–224). https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/principles/m19rev3en.pdf
• United Nations. (2021). Handbook on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems Management, Operation and Maintenance, Revision 1. https://doi.org/10.18356/9789210472173
• Vital Strategies, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and Statistics Norway. (2020). Production of a Vital Statistics Report: Guide. NY, Vital Strategies. https://www.vitalstrategies.org/wp-content/uploads/Production-of-a-Vital-Statistics-Report-Guide.pdf
• World Health Organization. (2013). Strengthening civil registration and vital statistics for births, deaths and causes of death. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/78917/1/9789241504591_eng.pdf.
• World Bank and WHO. (2014). Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics: A Scaling Up Investment Plan 2015-2024. Washington, DC: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/18962
• World Bank Group. (2018). Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems. [eLearning course]. https://olc.worldbank.org/content/civil-registration-and-vital-statistics-systems-basic-level-self-paced-format

B.1.2 Academic papers

• AbouZahr, C., De Savigny, D., Mikkelsen, L., Setel, P. W., Lozano, R., & Lopez, A. D. (2015). “Towards universal civil registration and vital statistics systems: the time is now”. The Lancet, 386(10001), 1407–1418. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60170-2
• Cobos Muñoz, D., Abouzahr, C., & De Savigny, D. (2018). “The ‘Ten CRVS Milestones’ framework for understanding Civil Registration and Vital Statistics systems”. BMJ Global Health, 3(2), e000673. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000673
• Mikkelsen, L., Richards, N., AbouZahr, C., Adair, T., Lopez, A. D., & deSavigny, D. (2018). “A framework for evaluating national CRVS systems at baseline.” Melbourne: Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Improvement, University of Melbourne. https://crvssystems.ca/framework-evaluating-national-crvs-systems-baseline
• Phillips, D. E., Adair, T., & Lopez, A. D. (2018). “How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data.” Population Health Metrics, 16(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-018-0180-6
• Suthar, A. B., Khalifa, A., Yin, S., Wenz, K., Ma Fat, D., Mills, S. L., Nichols, E., AbouZahr, C., & Mrkic, S. (2019). “Evaluation of approaches to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics systems: A systematic review and synthesis of policies in 25 countries.” PLOS Medicine, 16(9), e1002929. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002929

B.2 R

B.2.1 General

• Wickham, H., Çetinkaya-Rundel, M., & Grolemund, G. (2024). R for Data Science. (2nd ed.). O’Reilly Media. https://r4ds.hadley.nz

B.2.2 Data visualisation

B.2.2.1 Charts

• Wickham, H., Navarro, D. & and Lin Pedersen, T. (2024). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis. (3rd ed.). https://ggplot2-book.org
• Chang, W. (2024). R Graphics Cookbook. (2nd ed.). https://r-graphics.org
• Krause, A,. Rennie, N., & Tarran, B. (2024, February 1). Best Practices for Data Visualisation. Royal Statistical Society. https://royal-statistical-society.github.io/datavisguide/
• Wilke, C. (2024). SDS 375, Data Visualization in R. [Online course]. University of Texas. https://wilkelab.org/SDS375
• Scherer, C. (2023, May 15). “A ggplot2 Tutorial for Beautiful Plotting in R.” https://www.cedricscherer.com/2019/08/05/a-ggplot2-tutorial-for-beautiful-plotting-in-r
• BBC data team. (2019, January 24). “BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics.” https://bbc.github.io/rcookbook

B.2.2.2 Maps

• Anselin, L. (2016). Statistical Maps: Standard Deviation and Box Map. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-weK5J6xRI
• Harris, R. (2022-2023). Mapping and Modelling Geographic Data in R. [eLearning course]. https://profrichharris.github.io/MandM
• Lovelace, R., Nowosad, J., & Muenchow, J. (2023). Geocomputation with R. 2nd edition. https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net/index.html
• ONS Geography. (2021). Introduction to GIS in R. [eLearning course]. https://onsgeo.github.io/geospatial-training/docs/intro_to_gis_in_r

B.3 Git and GitHub

• Bryan, J. (2018b), Happy Git and GitHub for the useR. GitHub. https://happygitwithr.com
• Chacon, S., & Straub. B., (2014). Pro Git. Apress. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
• Perez-Riverol, Y., Gatto, L., Wang, R., Sachsenberg, T., Uszkoreit, J., Leprevost, F. da V., Fufezan, C., Ternent, T., Eglen, S. J., Katz, D. S., Pollard, T. J., Konovalov, A., Flight, R. M., Blin, K., & Vizcaíno, J. A. (2016). “Ten Simple Rules for Taking Advantage of Git and GitHub”. PLOS Computational Biology, 12(7), e1004947. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004947