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Civil Registration - Deaths
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1993
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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
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
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Observed Node | Disambiguating Description | Measured Value | Measured Property | Observation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Events | Number of unique death registrations since 1993 in England and Wales. | 14900000 | Count | 15 Jan 2021 |
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08/10/2024
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01/01/1993
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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
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