Annual birth estimates

<p>Time series of official annual live birth estimates for local authority disticts and selected higher geographies in England and Wales from 1991-92 owards.</p> <ol> <li> <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland" target="_blank" style="color: var(--color-accent-fg); background-color: transparent;">ONS mid-year population estimates components of change</a>&nbsp;- local authority births for mid-year periods from 2001-2 onward</li> <li> <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/009628birthsanddeathsbylowersuperoutputarealsoaenglandandwales1991to1992to2016to2017" target="_blank" style="color: var(--color-accent-fg); background-color: transparent;">Births and deaths by Lower Super Output Area (LSOA), England and Wales, 1991 to 1992 to 2016 to 2017</a>&nbsp;- ad hoc release of births by (2011) LSOA for mid-year periods from 1991-92 to 2016-17</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&amp;version=0&amp;dataset=206" target="_blank" style="color: var(--color-accent-fg); background-color: transparent;">Live births in England and Wales for small geographic areas</a>&nbsp;- births by (2011) LSOA for calendar year period from 2013 onward.</li> </ol> <p>While calendar year births data for local authorities is available for local earlier periods from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthsummarytables" target="_blank" style="color: var(--color-accent-fg); background-color: transparent;">ONS website</a>, this data has not yet been included here due to the complications caused by:</p> <ol> <li>the lack of geography codes accompanying the data for the years of interest</li> <li>the decision to combine data for Hackney and City of London, and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly</li> <li>inconsistent formatting of the published tables</li> </ol> <p>A respository of the code used to collate these data is available on GitHub at: <a href="https://github.com/Greater-London-Authority/collate-birth-data" target="_blank">https://github.com/Greater-London-Authority/collate-birth-data</a> </p> <p>This data is used as an input to <a href="https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/modelled-estimates-of-recent-births" target="_blank">Modelled estimates of recent births</a> </p>