Sam Wilson, 05/11/2017 11:24:
Are civil registry districts considered
"administrative districts"?
If you're just asking about Australia I don't know, but if you mean in
general then I don't think there's a general answer. There is a lot of
variance in terms of content, responsible entities and geographical
distribution.
For instance in Italy the "registro dello stato civile" is handled by
municipalities but then there are things handled by a "notaio", who can
be anywhere but eventually deposits records in the state archives
organised by province. And then some things are handled directly by some
ministry or agency thereof, and some others are elsewhere (e.g. churches).
So maybe you'd need to define what kind of information you're looking
for, e.g. X <registry for> birth/death information (qualifiers: after
19xx, within area Y, by law/custom/whatever).
Federico