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Monthly Data on Deaths Registered in Scotland

8 September 2008

This page contains monthly data on deaths registered in Scotland.

Table 1 presents the numbers of deaths registered in Scotland, and each National Health Service (NHS) Board area, for every month since 1990.

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Notes:

1. The information presented is based on the date of registration, not the date on which the event occurred. This is consistent with all routine data published by the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) e.g. in the Registrar General’s Annual Reports. (Further information on date of registration versus date of occurrence is given below.)

2. The figures shown for 2008 are provisional. All provisional data are shown in italics.

3. Initially, new monthly data will be added every three months (at the same time as the Registrar General’s Quarterly Return). More frequent updating may be considered in the future.

Date of registration versus date of occurrence

All routine vital events information we publish is based on the date of registration, not the date on which the event occurred. Inevitably, of course, there are delays between the occurrence of an event and its registration. From the information held on GROS databases it is possible to derive data relating to the actual date of the event. For detailed studies of short time periods we recommend that users consider using such data. For all enquiries on data availability please contact our Statistics Customer Services.

Time taken to register deaths

In Scotland there is a legal requirement to register deaths within 8 days. The overwhelming majority of deaths are registered within these limits. The chart below shows the number of days taken to register deaths in 2006. For deaths the mean interval was 2.3 days and the median interval was 1 day.

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