You asked
If possible I require annual mortality data due to battery ingestion in children (under 12 years) from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2018.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We routinely publish annual mortality statistics based on calendar year, for which the latest available data is for 2016. 2017 data is due to be published in July.
Cause of death is coded using version 10 of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). Deaths where the underlying cause is assigned to an external cause (ICD-10 Chapter XX, U50.9 to Y89) are also assigned at least one nature of injury code (Chapter XIX, S00 to T98) or a post-procedural code not within Chapter XIX. A single nature of injury code is then identified as the one causing death and is referred to by ONS as the secondary cause.
Deaths due to battery ingestion would be assigned an underlying cause of W44, accompanied by a secondary cause of T189.
In January 1986, a neonatal death certificate was introduced, from which it is not possible to assign an underlying cause of death. Therefore, underlying cause of death statistics exclude neonatal deaths (under 28 days).
More information about cause of death coding is available in section 9.2 of our User guide for mortality: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/methodologies/userguidetomortalitystatisticsjuly2017
We do not routinely publish combinations of underlying and secondary cause of death, or mortality data by financial year. However, this can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
If you would like any information similar to this in the future, please feel free to contact the team directly at: vsob@ons.gov.uk.