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Release: Parents' Country of Birth - England and Wales, 2011

Released: 30 August 2012
This product is designated as National Statistics All editions of this release

Contact

Elizabeth McLaren

Vital Statistics Outputs Branch

vsob@ons.gsi.gov.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)1329 444110

Categories: Population, Births and Fertility, Live Births and Stillbirths, Country of Birth of Each Parent

Frequency of release: Annually

Language: English

Geographical coverage: England and Wales

Geographical breakdown: Local Authority and County

In this release

This publication presents statistics on live births by parents' country of birth. These statistics include the ten most common countries of birth for non-UK born mothers and fathers, the age of mothers by country of birth as well as estimated total fertility rates for UK born women and non-UK born women. The percentage of births to non-UK mothers is also provided at local authority level.

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

There is also 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. Health and Life Events user engagement strategy (95.1 Kb Pdf) outlines the divisional approach to user engagement.

Other useful information

The United Kingdom Statistics Authority has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Designation can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics:

  • meet identified user needs;
  • are well explained and readily accessible;
  • are produced according to sound methods; and
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest.

Once statistics have been designated as National Statistics it is a statutory requirement that the Code of Practice shall continue to be observed.

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