Theme : Life & Death

Themes are used in the Vision of Britain system to organise all our statistical data into a small number of broad categories, often identified by icons on the web site.

Identifier:

T_VITAL

Name:

Life & Death

Type:

Theme (T)

Text:

This theme covers births, marriages and deaths, including changing causes of death. Unlike most of our themes, it is based not on the Census but on the closely related system for registering births, marriages and deaths, established in 1837.

In this first version of the system, the main emphasis is on infant mortality, the number of children dying before their first birthday as a proportion of all births.

Theme " Life & Death " is contained within:

The Database, which everything else is contained within:

Entity ID	Entity Name
DB	VoB Database

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Theme " Life & Death " contains:

Rates, for mapping and for comparing areas :

Entity ID	Entity Name
R_STD_MORT_RATIO	Standardised Mortality Ratio
R_INF_MORT	Infant Mortality Rate
R_PERI_MORT	Perinatal Mortality Rate
R_FERTILITY	Fertility Rate
R_ILLEGITIMATE	Illegitimacy Rate

Dataset Groups, bringing together related datasets :

Entity ID	Entity Name
NG_CoD	Cause of Death Statistics

Datasets or nCubes, containing the actual data :

Entity ID	Entity Name
N_BIRTH_TOT	Total Births
N_BIRTH_SEX	Births by sex
N_BIRTH_SEX_LEGIT	Births by legitimacy & sex
N_BIRTH_LEGIT	Births by legitimacy
N_MARRIAGE_TOT	Total Marriages
N_DEATH_TOT	Total Deaths
N_DEATH_SEX	Deaths by sex
N_INF_DEATHS	Infant Deaths
N_PERINATAL	Perinatal Deaths
N_AGEMORT_2001	Mortality by Age & Sex

Variable Groups, bringing together related variables :

Entity ID	Entity Name
VG_CoD	Cause of Death

Variables, defining what data was gathered for :

Entity ID	Entity Name
V_BIRTHS	Total Live Births
V_LEGIT	Legitimacy
V_TOT_MARRIAGES	Total Marriages
V_TOT_DEATHS	Total Deaths
V_INF_DEATHS	Infant Deaths
V_PERINATAL	Perinatal mortality