Vital Statistics for Wards in England and Wales, 1988; VS4

The purpose of the <i>Vital Statistics for England and Wales</i> data is to record the numbers of conceptions, live births, stillbirths, deaths and causes of death for persons in England and Wales, by gender and age. Data are available at local authority, health authority and ward level. Individual studies in the series record various parts of these data. Changes have been made over time to the way in which the Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects vital statistics data, resulting in some variation in the content of later studies in the series. Further information may be found in the <i>Key Population and Vital Statistics</i> reports available from the ONS web site.<br>
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During 2006, Sam Smith and colleagues at ESDS Government carried out work on various studies in the series prior to 2002, to improve the data format. The resulting files have been redeposited at the UKDA. More information is available in the documentation for the studies concerned.<br>
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The data cover vital statistics at ward level for 1988.<br>
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For the second edition (August 2006), work was carried out on the data by ESDS Government (see above), in order to produce a more user-friendly tab-delimited ASCII file. The data are also now available in Excel format.<br>
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《英格兰和威尔士生命统计（Vital Statistics for England and Wales）》数据集的核心用途为：按性别与年龄维度，记录英格兰与威尔士地区的受孕数、活产数、死产数、死亡总数及各类死因构成。该数据集支持按地方当局、卫生当局及选区层级提供数据查询服务。本系列单项研究分别记录了上述数据的不同组成模块。随着时间推移，英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）对生命统计数据的采集流程进行了调整，导致本系列后续研究的数据内容存在一定差异。更多相关细节可查阅英国国家统计局官网发布的《关键人口与生命统计（Key Population and Vital Statistics）》报告。<br><br>2006年期间，ESDS Government的Sam Smith及其研究团队针对2002年之前的本系列多项研究开展了数据格式优化工作，优化后的数据集文件已重新归档至英国数据档案馆（UKDA）。相关研究的配套文档中提供了更多详细信息。<br><br>本数据集涵盖1988年的选区层级生命统计数据。<br><br>在2006年8月发布的第二版中，ESDS Government（详见前文说明）对原始数据进行了处理，生成了更便于用户使用的制表符分隔ASCII文件。此外，当前版本的数据还提供了Excel格式可供获取。<br><br>