Deaths registered monthly in England and Wales

I-Hsuan Lin

University of Manchester

February 19, 2022

Introduction

This notebook shows how to use readxl package to retreive the Deaths registered monthly in England and Wales Dataset from Office for National Statistics and create various plots to show the number of deaths with ggplot2.

Source: Office for National Statistics

About this dataset

Number of deaths registered each month by area of usual residence for England and Wales, by region, county, local and unitary authority, and London borough. These are monthly provisional data covering the month before release and do not include the most up-to-date figures on deaths registered involving coronavirus (COVID-19); see our weekly deaths data.

Important notes and usage information

If you are looking for the latest data on deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) registered in England and Wales, please see our weekly provisional deaths dataset.

Main points from latest release

• The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in December 2021 was 52,859; this represents an increase of 1,257 deaths in comparison with the previous month and a decrease of 3,813 deaths in comparison with the same month in 2020.
• Moveable public holidays and the number of weekends, when register offices are closed, affect the number of registrations made in the published months and in the corresponding months in previous years.
• Local authorities’ codes and names have been updated to reflect the changes that occurred in April 2021.