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Births, Deaths and Other Vital Events - Quarterly Figures

Description	Provisional figures for vital events registered in Scotland in the fourth quarter of 2012
ISBN	Web Only
Official Print Publication	Web Only

14 March 2013

Fourth Quarter 2012

This release presents provisional figures for vital events which were registered in Scotland in the period from 1 October 2012 to 31 December 2012, inclusive. The tables and chart (available below) provide statistics of births, stillbirths, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths, including:

quarterly figures for Scotland for each of the past ten years;
the totals for each Local Authority and NHS Board area for the latest quarter; and
more detailed analyses of the numbers of deaths (e.g. cross-classified by sex, cause and NHS Board area) for the latest quarter.

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Tables and Chart

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All Tables	Births, deaths and other vital events - fourth quarter 2012 (Excel)
Table Q1	Births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, Scotland, quarterly, 2002 to 2012 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table Q2	Estimated population, births, stillbirths, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, numbers and rates, by administrative area, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2012 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table Q3	Deaths, by sex, age and administrative area, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2012 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table Q4	Deaths, by cause, Scotland, fourth quarters 2009-2012 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table Q5	Deaths by sex, age and cause, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2012 (Excel CSV PDF)
Table Q6	Deaths by sex, cause and NHS Board area, Scotland, fourth quarter, 2012 (Excel CSV PDF)

Chart 1

Births, Marriages and Deaths registered in successive periods of four quarters
(Excel PDF)

Commentary

More detailed commentary on the final Vital Events statistics for calendar years as a whole (including some comparisons of the figures for different years, for parts of Scotland and for some other countries) can be found in:

the relevant chapters of Scotland's Population - the Registrar General's Annual Review of Demographic Trends; and
the High Level Summary of Statistics pages on Births and Deaths.

Note

This is a quarterly publication. The dates of future publications will be announced in our Future Publications page.

Enquiries

Please contact our Customer Services if you need any further information.
E-mail: customer@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk

If you have comments or suggestions that would help us improve our outputs or our standards of service, please contact:

Kirsty MacLachlan,

Senior Statistician, National Records of Scotland,
Room 1/2/3, Ladywell House, Ladywell Road, Edinburgh. EH12 7TF.
Telephone: (0131) 314 4242
E-mail: kirsty.maclachlan@gro-scotland.gsi.gov.uk.