You asked
I would like to request the following data:
- Suicide rates (raw and age-standardised)
- Deaths related to drug misuse
Please provide the data at the Local Authority level, for each year from the present going back to 1991.
We said
Many thanks for your recent request.
You asked for suicide rates and deaths related to drug misuse at local authority level starting from 1991.
Data on suicides numbers and rates at the local authority level start from 2002 and can be found using the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/suicidesbylocalauthority
2016 deaths will be updated later in the year.
Data on deaths relating to drug misuse at a local authority level start from 2001 and can be found using the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/drugmisusedeathsbylocalauthority
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). Therefore if you require this data from 1991 to 2001 you should contact mortality@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Mortality Analysis team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.