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Births registrations indexed, England and Wales

Includes data recorded when live births and stillbirths are registered as part of civil registration, a legal requirement, in England and Wales.

Pseudonymised Integrated Data Asset (IDA) version of births dataset. This IDA dataset has been indexed against the Demographic, Address, Geography and Classifications and  to include demographic_entry_ids, address_entry_ids,  geography_entry_ids and classifications_entry_id,  wherever possible. 

This data has been prepared for delivery into the Integrated Data Service (IDS). It includes information recorded when live births and stillbirths are registered as part of civil registration, a legal requirement, in England and Wales. 

The registration of births is a service carried out by the Local Registration Service in partnership with the General Register Office, in England and Wales. All registered births are included except very late registrations received more than 14 months after the end of each reference year. There are fewer than 100 of these for any given year.

All data hosted on the Integrated Data Service (IDS) are de-identified.

Keywords:

Births, Health, Life events, Wellbeing