Health and Life Events guidance and metadata

These documents provide supporting information for ONS publications of health and life event statistics.

Guidance and methodology on health accounts and population estimates, projections and migration can be found at the Specific Methodology area of the website.

• Assigning life events data to sub-national areas: an assessment of a change to the methodology

  PDF download of Assigning life events data to sub-national areas report

• Proposed changes to child mortality publications

  PDF download of Proposed changes to child mortality publications.

• Birth Notifications Poster

  PDF download on uses of Birth Notifications data

• Conception metadata

  PDF download of Metadata for ONS's conceptions statistics, 2013

• Births metadata

  PDF download of Health and life events guidance - Births metadata 2011

• Marriages metadata

  PDF download of Health and life events user guidance - Marriages metadata 2012

• Divorces metadata

  PDF download of Health and life events user guidance - Divorces metadata, 2012

• Mortality metadata

  PDF download of Health and life events - metadata for ONS's mortality statistics, 2012

• Child mortality statistics metadata

  PDF download of Child mortality statistics metadata, 2012

• How changes to Population Statistics Act will affect birth statistics

  PDF download of ONS's planned changes to birth statistics in 2012/13 as a result of amendments to the Population Statistics Act

• Outcome of birth statistics review and lookup file for new tables

  PDF download of Health and life events user guidance - Outcome of birth statistics review and lookup file for new tables, 2010

• A combined approach to National Statistics Socio-economic Classification

  An investigation into the potential impact on birth and infant mortality statistics when applying a combined approach to NS-SEC

• Outcome of marriage, divorce and adoption statistics review and lookup file for new tables

  PDF download of Health and life events user guidance - Outcome of marriage, divorce and adoption statistics review and lookup file for new tables

• Plan for mortality statistics 2012/13

  PDF download of the ONS Live Events and Population Sources Division plan for mortality statistics 2012/13 including the publication timetable and changes to outputs

• Age standardised mortality rate calculation template

  Microsoft Excel template to demonstrate how age-standardised rates and 95 per cent confidence intervals are calculated

• Impact of Registration Delays on Mortality Statistics, 2011

  This paper provides an overview of the impact of registration delays on data quality for 2011 mortality statistics

• Methodology for calculating provisional excess winter mortality

  PDF download of Health and life events user guidance - Methodology for calculating provisional excess winter mortality, 2001

• Guide to: Life expectancy in the United Kingdom

  PDF download on the variety of life expectancy statistics produced by ONS

• Proposed Changes to Birth Statistics by Socio-Economic Classification

  Proposed Changes to Birth Statistics by Socio-Economic Classification