Vital Statistics for England and Wales, 2004; VS1, VS2, VS3, VS4, VS4D

Data are available at local authority, health authority and ward level. Individual studies in the series record various parts of these data.

Changes have been made over time to the way in which the Office for National Statistics (ONS) collects vital statistics data, resulting in some variation in the content of later studies in the series. Further information may be found in the <i>Key Population and Vital Statistics</i> reports available from the ONS web site.<br> <br> During 2006, Sam Smith and colleagues at ESDS Government carried out work on various studies in the series prior to 2002, to improve the data format.