Birth and Death Rates, Ward

<p>Live births by usual residence of mother, and General Fertility Rates (GFR), and Deaths and Standardised Mortality Ratio (SMR) by ward and local authority.</p> <p>The births and deaths data comes from ONS Vital Statistics Table 4.<br /> Small area data is only available directly from ONS under licence.</p> <p>The general fertility rate (GFR) is the number of live births per 1,000 women aged 15-44.</p> <p>SMR measures whether the population of an area has a higher or lower number of deaths than expected based on the age profile of the population (more deaths are expected in older populations). The SMR is defined as follows: SMR = (Observed no. of deaths per year)/(Expected no. of deaths per year).</p> <p>Rates are provisional, they are based on the GLA 2011 based SHLAA ward projections (standard) released in January 2012. At national level, however, they are based on the mid-year population estimates.</p> <p>More information is on the <a href="http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/birth-summary-tables--england-and-wales/index.html">ONS website</a>.</p>