Age & sex factored mortality 1970 - 2021 (part 1)

England & Wales monthly mortality rate by quinary age band and sex: males under 45y

Background

We now get to the heart of the matter and the reason for my crunching population counts these last few days. I’ve been sitting on monthly counts of death by occurrence by quinary age band (18 bands) and sex for England & Wales for the period 1970 – 2021 that I’ve cobbled together from various FOI requests to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This bit of veggie prep was summarised in my recent roundup newsletter.

It should be obvious to subscribers by now that although the ONS prefers to provide updated tabulations of deaths at registration on a weekly basis these figures are not much use when it comes to analysing trends owing to delays in processing that may be significant. In private correspondence with a group member an officer states…

Legally a person has 5 days to register a death with the General Register Office. These registrations come through to ONS on a daily basis where they are loaded on to our system for validation and coding. Some deaths are registered we…