Release: Live Births by Socio-economic Status of Father, England and Wales, 2010

Presents data on birth registrations in England and Wales by National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) of father as defined by occupation.

For information on data quality, legislation and procedures relating to birth statistics, please see Births Metadata (375.7 Kb Pdf) and Births Summary Quality Report (117.8 Kb Pdf) .

There is also a frequently asked questions on births and fertility document (198 Kb Pdf) .

In addition, there is an interactive mapping tool which enables trends in fertility to be analysed at the local level.

There is a lookup table (44.1 Kb Pdf) to show how the current birth tables relate to former Series FM1 tables.

The Vital Statistics: Population and Health Reference Tables provide quarterly and annual births data for the United Kingdom and its constituent countries.

For data for other UK countries please see the latest birth statistics for Northern Ireland and the latest birth statistics for Scotland.

We welcome feedback on the content, format and relevance of this release. User Engagement in the Health and Life Events Division (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.