Birth and Death Registration data ONS
- Abstract
- The Vital Statistics Output Branch (VSOB) supply birth and death registration data, which includes date of birth or death, cause of death, and usual postcode of residence.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Birth and death
- Variables
- N/A
- Keywords
- Births, deaths, population, England, Wales, postcode, cause of death
- Identifier Variables
- Postcode
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Demographics
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data collecting organization (s)
- ONS
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- Individual birth and death records for England and Wales residents
- Availability
- ONS
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/d[…]and+Death+Registration+data
- Contact
- access2data@ons.gsi.gov.uk.
- Publications
- Anand D and Pharoah POD. Errors in registered birth weight and its implications for mortality statistics. Arch Dis Child 2000; 83: 397–400