Catalogue description Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Statistics Division and successors, Vital Statistics Branch: Reports

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Reference: RG 62
Title: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Statistics Division and successors, Vital Statistics Branch: Reports
Description:

This series contains reports of the Vital Statistics Branch on various internal studies and reviews. They relate to a review of organisation and development in the branch and a study into the possible use of postcodes in the Division.
Date: 1975-1978
Separated material:

Registered files relating to these matters have not survived.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Vital Statistics Branch, 1975-1980
Physical description: 3 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Vital Statistics Branch dealt with:

  • 1) processing of infant mortality linkage
  • 2) coding and processing divorce, births, stillbirths and deaths forms
  • 3) coding occupation, area, birthplace, institution and legitimacy from forms
  • 4) cause of death coding
  • 5) ad hoc requests from medical researchers
  • 6) provision of statistics
  • 7) despatch of vital statistics
  • 8) supply of data for Monitors, the weekly and monthly publications by OPCS containing statistics, tables etc
  • 9) maintenance of the Directory of Layouts and standard procedures. (The Directory of Layouts relate to the format of computer records showing the layout of primary medical and vital statistics records)
  • 10) the Oxford Record Linkage Study (The Oxford Record Linkage Study was the creation of a link in a central file of records of births, hospital admissions and deaths for the Oxford area from 1 January 1962)
  • 11) matching postcodes to wards.
The Vital Statistics Branch existed through the various divisions without a name change.

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