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Monthly Data on Deaths Registered in Scotland

Last Updated: March 2010

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 the latest year (or two) will be provisional, pending the publication of the final figures for each calendar year in the following summer (e.g. the final figures for 2007 were published in summer 2008). All provisional data are shown in italics.

3. Further monthly data will be added, and previously-published monthly data may be revised, every quarter. Table 1 should be updated whenever another edition of the quarterly "Births, Marriages and Deaths" statistical release is published.  However, some of the totals could differ slightly from the figures which appear in "Births, Marriages and Deaths", due to amendments being made to the GROS Vital Events statistical database (e.g. to correct some of the details recorded there) between the dates on which the two sets of statistics were produced.

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