Release: Characteristics of Mother 2, England and Wales, 2010

Presents data on birth registrations in England and Wales by characteristics of the mother. This package contains live birth statistics (numbers and rates) within and outside marriage/civil partnership, first live births within marriage by marriage/civil partnership duration, live births within marriage/civil partnership by age of mother and number of previous live-born children.

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) .

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.