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5.3 Annual Number of Births and Deaths
The annual number of live births (so does not include stillbirths) and the annual number
of deaths for Hull is available from Population Trends (Office for National Statistics
2008). This information is also produced within the Compendium. The number of live
births and deaths are calculated on the basis of the usual residence of the mother or the
deceased respectively. Deaths and mortality rates produced by the Compendium are
based on year of registration of the death rather than year of death.
Deaths should be registered within five days of the death. However, delays can occur if
the death needs to be investigated by the local coroner. In these cases, which involve
unexplained or suspicious deaths including suicides, the registration date of the death
can be several months after the date of the death. Therefore, for the majority of deaths
the year of the death and the year of the registration of the death will be within the same
calendar year. The deaths which occur within the last few days of one calendar year
could well be registered during the next calendar year. However, in relation to the
difference in the number of deaths based on year of death and year of registration of
death, this will be balanced to a certain degree as this will occur at the start and end of
each calendar year. See section 12.9 on page 778 for more information.
Table 30 gives the number of live births to Hull residents occurring during 2002 to 2009
and the number of deaths to Hull residents which were registered during 2002 to 2009.
Table 30: Annual number of live births and deaths
Year of
event
Number of live births
to Hull residents occurring
during the year
Number of deaths
of Hull residents registered
during the year
2002 2,797 2,628
2003 2,970 2,730
2004 3,212 2,536
2005 3,203 2,577
2006 3,500 2,582
2007 3,471 2,555
2008 3,682 2,453
2009 3,560 2,445
ONS also provides individual-level data on births (live births and stillbirths) and deaths
through the Public Health Births File (PHBF) and the Public Health Mortality File (PHMF)
respectively. However, there was a recognition that the information provided for prior to
2003 for births may have included errors in the figures particularly in relation to the
number of stillbirths. The number of births and deaths in Table 30 may differ slightly
from those given in the local PHBF and PHMF because of differences in the distribution
and dissemination of the data. If there is a delay in distributing or disseminating the data
then it is possible that new information could be added to the file such as deaths
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