Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables -- BOXES -- Box 1.1: The Millennium Development Goals -- Box 2.1: Key Agencies Producing Official Statistics in Nepal -- Box 2.2: Population Register and Register-Based Population Census -- Box 3.1: Official Statistics and Administrative Statistics in Mongolia -- Box 3.2: Social and Environmental Statistics Generated from Administrative Records -- Box 3.3: Examples of Coordination and Partnerships -- Box 3.4: The National Statistical Indicator System of Viet Nam: An Example of Coordination and Assignment of Statistical Activities in the Statistical System -- Box 4.1: Education for All Goals -- Box 4.2: Nepal's Education for All Goals -- Box 4.3: School Report Card - Nepal -- Box 4.4: Collecting Education Statistics for the Annual School Census of Sri Lanka -- Box 4.5: Essential Data to Be Collected from Educational Establishments -- Box 4.6: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 2.1: Net Enrollment Ratio in Primary Education -- Box 4.7: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 2.2: Proportion of Pupils Starting Grade 1 Who Reach Last Grade of Primary -- Box 4.8: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 3.1: Ratio of Girls to Boys in Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Education -- Box 4.9: Use of Education Management Information Systems Data for Evidence-Based Planning in Nepal -- Box 4.10: Data Fluctuations in Education Indicators - Palau -- Box 4.11: Study on Using School Census Data for Compiling Education Indicators in Sri Lanka -- Box 5.1: Global Health Targets -- Box 5.2: Viet Nam's Health Goals in The Five-Year Socio-economic Development Plan 2006-2010 -- Box 5.3: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 4.3: Proportion of 1 Year-Old Children Immunized against Measles -- Box 5.4: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 5.2: Proportion of Births Attended by Skilled Health Personnel.

Box 5.5: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 6.6: Incidence and Death Rates Associated with Malaria -- Box 5.6: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 6.9: Incidence, Prevalence, and Death Rates Associated with Tuberculosis -- Box 5.7: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 6.10: Proportion of Tuberculosis Cases Detected and Cured under Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course -- Box 5.8: Quality Check Systems in the Health Management Information System of Nepal -- Box 5.9: Health Information Systems Initiatives Undertaken in Nepal and Mongolia -- Box 5.10: Pakistan Health Management Information System: Reforming from a Centralized System to a District-Based System -- Box 6.1: Why Do We Need Vital Statistics? -- Box 6.2: Vital Registration System in Sri Lanka -- Box 6.3: Limitations of Household Surveys in Measuring the Millennium Development Goals Indicators of Infant, Child, and Maternal Mortality -- Box 6.4: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 4.1: Under-5 Mortality Rate -- Box 6.5: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 4.2: Infant Mortality Rate -- Box 6.6: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 5.1: Maternal Mortality Ratio (per 100,000 live births) -- Box 6.7: Millennium Development Goal Indicator 5.4: Adolescent Birth Rate -- Box 6.8: Common Barriers to Civil Registration -- Box 6.9: Civil Registration Month Celebration in the Philippines -- Box 6.10: Mass Mobile Registration in Cambodia -- Box 6.11: International Form of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death -- Box 6.12: Additional Information to Identify Maternal Deaths -- Box 6.13: Automated Classification of Cause of Death in Australia -- Box 6.14: Cause of Death - Verbal Autopsy Form - Sri Lanka -- Box 6.15: Processing of Vital Statistics Forms in Sri Lanka - Use of Scanners -- Box 6.16: Alternative Methods for Collecting Vital Statistics - India and the People's Republic of China.

Box 6.17: Monitoring Vital Events Resource Kit: Stepping Stones for Strengthening Vital Statistics Systems -- Box 7.1: Where Does Asia and the Pacific Stand on the Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals? -- Box 7.2: Nationalizing the Millennium Development Goals in Mongolia -- FIGURES -- Figure 5.1: Information Needs and Tools at Different Levels of Data Collection -- Figure 5.2: Health Information Data Sources -- Figure 6.1: Chart of a SAVVY System -- Box Figure 4.3: School Report Card in Nepal -- Box Figure 5.10.1: Observed Performance Facility and District Level -- Box Figure 5.10.2: Improvements in Data Accuracy and Use of Information before and after Test in Pakistan, 2006 -- Box Figure 6.2.1: Organizational Structure of the Civil Registration System in Sri Lanka -- Box Figure 6.2.2: Vital Statistics Data Collection -- Box Figure 6.15: Data Flow and Processing System of Vital Statistics Forms -- TABLES -- Table 1.1: Official List of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- Table 2.1: Population, Agriculture, and Economic Censuses Conducted in Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam -- Table 2.2: Use of Population Census Data for the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- Table 2.3: Key Features of the Most Common Household Surveys -- Table 2.4: Major Household Surveys Conducted in Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam -- Table 2.5: Millennium Development Goals Indicators That Can Be Produced from Household Surveys -- Table 3.1: Millennium Development Goals Indicators and Possible Use of Administrative Data -- Table 4.1: Goals and Targets Related to Education in the Millennium Development Goals Framework -- Table 4.2: Information Needs according to Administrative Level -- Table 4.3: Key Education Indicators -- Table 4.4: Education-Related Millennium Development Goals Targets and Indicators.

Table 4.5A: Net Enrollment Ratio in Primary Education in Sri Lanka and Selected Provinces 1998-2000 -- Table 4.5B: Trends in Net Enrollment Rate at Primary Level in Sri Lanka 1998-2007 -- Table 5.1: Goals and Targets Related to Health in the Millennium Development Goals Framework -- Table 5.2: Key Indicators of Health -- Table 5.3: Health and Health-Related Millennium Development Goals, Targets and Indicators -- Table 5.4: Estimates of Infant Mortality Rate from Administrative Data and Reproductive Health Survey, Mongolia -- Table 6.1: Civil Registration Law and Organization Responsible for Civil Registration in Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam -- Table 6.2: Vital Statistics as Source of Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- Table 6.3A: Percentage of Births and Deaths Registered, Sri Lanka -- Table 6.3B: Percentage of De Jure Children under 5 Years Whose Births Are Registered, Nepal, 2006 -- Table 6.5: Estimates of Births and Deaths by the Ministry of Health, the General Authority for State Registration, and the National Statistics Committee, Mongolia -- Table 7.1: Recommended Sources of Data for Compiling the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- Table 7.2: Number of Millennium Development Goals Indicators Compiled at Least Once in Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam from 2000 to 2008 -- Table 7.3: Data Sources for the Millennium Development Goals Indicators Compiled at Least Once during 2000-2008 in Mongolia, Nepal, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam -- Table 7.4: Millennium Development Goals Indicators Sourced from Administrative Data Sources -- Table 7.5: Comparison of Mongolia's National Millennium Development Goal 1 with the United Nations' Official Millennium Development Goal 1 -- Box Table 4.10: Gross and Net Enrollment Rates, Primary and Secondary.

Box Table 7.1: Country Groups On and Off Track for the Millennium Development Goals -- Endorsements -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Statistical Needs for Measuring Development Goals and Targets -- 1.3 Objectives and Scope -- 1.4 Summary of Chapters -- Bibliography -- 2 SOURCES OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATISTICS: CENSUSES AND HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS -- 2.1 Institutional Arrangements in National Statistical Systems -- 2.2 Censuses -- 2.3 The Role of Population Censuses in the Compilation of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- 2.4 Sample Surveys -- 2.5 Role of Household Surveys in the Compilation of the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- 2.6 Data Quality Considerations -- Key Points -- Appendix 2.1 -- Bibliography -- 3 SOURCES OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATISTICS: ADMINISTRATIVE DATA -- 3.1 What Are Administrative Data? -- 3.2 Types of Administrative Records -- 3.3 Advantages and Limitations of Administrative Data -- 3.4 Use of Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes -- 3.5 Administrative Data as Sources for Compiling the Millennium Development Goals Indicators -- 3.6 Meeting Challenges in Using Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes -- 3.7 Complementarities among Data Sources -- Key Points -- Appendix 3.1 -- Bibliography -- 4 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS -- 4.1 Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals -- 4.2 Sources of Education Statistics -- 4.3 Administrative Data as Sources for Education Statistics and Indicators -- 4.4 Education-Related Millennium Development Goals Indicators and Use of Administrative Data -- 4.5 Improving Administrative Data: Observations and Lessons from Country Studies in Using Education Data for Statistical Indicators -- Key Points -- Bibliography -- 5 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA FOR HEALTH STATISTICS.

5.1 Health for All and the Millennium Development Goals.