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Description:
Deaths registration data (all deaths in England and Wales) collected from The Registrar General for England and Wales.
Record-level patient data set, where a record represents one death registration.
The data are collected at source from Local Registry offices at the point of death registration.
The data are collated nationally by the Register General before being passed to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), for use in statistics and coding.
Coding includes such things cause of death coding using the International Classifications of Diseases (ICD) coding system, attributing socio-economic code classifications based on occupation.
ONS maintains its own version of the data set for its use in statistics.
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The Civil Registration of Deaths data contains 14 million unique registrations since 1993 onwards, increasing yearly. Average 500,000 - 600,000 new death registrations yearly.
Records cover all deaths registered in England & Wales. ICD coding is 9th and 10th.
[https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars)
Timescales for dissemination can be found under "Our Service Levels" at the following link: [https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process](https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process)
Coverage
Typical Age Range:
0-150
Follow Up:
Other
Provenance
Origin
Purposes:
Administrative
Sources:
Other
Collection Situations:
Other
Temporal
Accrual Periodicity:
Continuous
Start Date:
01 January 1993
Time Lag:
1-2 weeks
Accessibility
Access
Access Service:
Once your DARS application has been approved, data will be made available either
by secure file transfer or through the Data Access Environment (DAE). Secure
file transfer: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/transfer-data-securely DAE:
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-environment-dae
Access Request Cost:
Delivery Lead Time:
Not applicable
Jurisdictions:
- GB-EAW
- GB-GBN
Data Controller:
NHS England (NHSE)
Data Processor:
NHS England (NHSE)
Usage
Data Use Requirements:
- Ethics approval required
- Institution-specific restrictions
- Project-specific restrictions
- Time limit on use
- User-specific restriction
Resource Creators:
NHS ENGLAND
Format and Standards
Vocabulary Encoding Schemes:
- ICD9
- ICD10
- ODS
- NHS NATIONAL CODES
- OTHER
Languages:
en
Formats:
- CSV
- Text
Observations
Statistical Population
Population Description
Population Size
Measured Property
Observation Date
Events
Number of unique death registrations since 1993 in England and Wales.
14900000
Count
15 January 2021