FOI Ref: FOI/2021/3264
You asked
1) This request is in response to FOI/2021/3142. You have stated than in order to provide the number of 15 to 19 year olds who have died since May 2021 and their vaccination status, your teams would be required to link two raw data sets to produce the requested analysis. Please could I request these two raw datasets?
2) Please also supply the cause of death data for UK 15 to 19 year olds for 2021 (so far) 2020, 2019 and 2018.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
We are responsible for the production of mortality data for England and Wales, this is driven by information collected from the death certificate at death registration. National Records Scotland (NRS) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) are responsible for statistics pertaining to Scotland and Northern Ireland. They can be contacted at foi@nrscotland.gov.uk and info@nisra.gov.uk respectively.
Unfortunately, we are unable to release any of the raw data you have requested as this contains identifiable information. This is consistent with the disclosure control methodology used for deaths. Section 39 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (SRSA) which renders it an offence to disclose information held by the Statistics Board for statistical purposes that would identify an individual or a body corporate. As we are prohibited by law from publishing statistics in which individual businesses or persons can be identified, we find that Section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies. Section 44 is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.
Cause of death for 1519 years of age in the UK
Using the NOMIS webservice, which is an interactive web service, we have provided broad ICD-10 chapter deaths for age15-19 year old from 2017 to 2020. Further disaggregation of these ICD-10 chapters is available on the website by following these instructions.
The information you have requested part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice
- Select the geography (England and Wales, regional or by local authority).
- Select Age – All ages or 5-year age bands.
- Select Gender – Total or Male/Female
- Select rates – All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available).
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
| Cause of death | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A00-R99,U00-Y89 All causes, all ages | 831 | 720 | 673 |
| All causes, aged 28 days and over | 831 | 720 | 673 |
| A00-B99 I Certain infectious and parasitic diseases | 9 | 10 | 7 |
| C00-D48 II Neoplasms (Cancers) | 106 | 73 | 92 |
| D50-D89 III Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism | 5 | 10 | 4 |
| E00-E90 IV Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases | 29 | 20 | 14 |
| F00-F99 V Mental and behavioural disorders | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| G00-G99 VI Diseases of the nervous system | 62 | 64 | 62 |
| H00-H59 VII Diseases of the eye and adnexa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| H60-H95 VIII Diseases of the ear and mastoid process | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| I00-I99 IX Diseases of the circulatory system | 55 | 43 | 48 |
| J00-J99 X Diseases of the respiratory system | 31 | 29 | 18 |
| K00-K93 XI Diseases of the digestive system | 15 | 8 | 9 |
| L00-L99 XII Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| M00-M99 XIII Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| N00-N99 XIV Diseases of the genitourinary system | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| O00-O99 XV Pregnancy, childbirth puerperium | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| P00-P96 XVI Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Q00-Q99 XVII Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities | 21 | 29 | 23 |
| R00-R99 XVIII Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified | 13 | 4 | 10 |
| R96 Other sudden death, cause unknown | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| R96.0 Instantaneous death | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| R96.1 Death occurring less than 24 hours from onset of symptoms, not otherwise explained | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| U509,V01-Y89 XX External causes of morbidity and mortality | 470 | 418 | 367 |
| U00-U85 XXII Codes for special purposes | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Download this table Deaths by ICD-10 chapter for 15–19-year-old in England and Wales, including non-residents
.xls .csvIf this does not meet your needs or to request data for 2021, we can create a custom output. Information on deaths by specific age group and cause from 2017 to 2021 along with other special extracts and tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate).
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.