Release

Predicting total weekly death occurrences in England and Wales methodology

Released: 29 May 2020 9:30am
Next release: To be announced

Summary

Outlines a method for rapidly estimating numbers of death by date of death using the latest death registration data available. This method can be used to improve our estimation of how many deaths occurred when for mortality surveillance purposes.

Methodology

Contact details

Name

Neil Hopper

Email

health.data@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0) 1633 580080