FOI reference: FOI-2024-2431

You asked

Live births by month of occurrence between September 1942 and September 2014 for the Sunderland area.

We said

Thank you for your request. 

Our births statistics are produced from information received at birth registration. We only hold digital copies of birth registrations back to 1963 and information on mothers' area of residence is only available from 1981 on. Therefore, we do not hold information on monthly births for the Sunderland area prior to that. 

Information on live births to mother's resident in Sunderland from September 2014 to August 2021 are available in the user requested dataset in the following links:

Information on live births by month in England and Wales for births occurring between 1938 and 1991 can also be found on our website.

The requested information for births occurring in Sunderland between January 1981 and August 2014 and September 2022 to December 2023 would need to be created as a custom output. This along with other special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available to order. Please note these services are subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs in line with our charging policy.  Please contact Health.Data@ons.gov.uk to discuss this further.  

As the requested information is reasonably accessible via another route, either on our website or via on payment via our bespoke services, the exemption found under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies.