FOI ref: FOI/2023/4908
You asked
I am making a Freedom of Information request for several statistical comparisons between death rates in men and women in the UK for the past 10 years.
Where possible please provide numbers, percentages, ratios, and totals.
1. Please provide numbers, and percentage division of men and women of reported domestic abuse cases in the UK for the past 10 years. Also please provide the number of shelters and supporting charities for both men and women survivors of domestic abuse.
2. Please provide numbers, and percentage division of men and women in workplace deaths in the UK for the past 10 years.
3. Please provide numbers, and percentage division of UK men and women in deaths caused in active service in the armed forces, for the past 10 years.
4. Please provide numbers, and percentage division of men's and women's death by homicide in the UK in the past 10 years.
5. Please provide numbers, and percentage division of men's and women's deaths caused by suicide in the UK in the past 10 years.6.
6. Please provide numbers of deaths each year caused by breast cancer and prostate cancer.
7. To the best of your ability, please provide total amounts, per year, of all known publicly funded money in the research, medicine and supporting institutions of breast cancer and prostate cancer, in the UK in the past 10 years.
We said
Thank you for your request. Please see the following answers to your questions.
1.
We publish domestic abuse statistics which are produced via our Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). We do not hold domestic abuse data for Scotland and Northern Ireland. 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.
Please see the following link to our bulletin: Domestic abuse in England and Wales. This contains figures on domestic abuse from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, police recorded crime and a number of different organisations.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information on charities and shelters and supporting charities. Please see below support options for domestic abuse help. This is not an exhaustive list, but they may be able to provide you with further information on domestic abuse charities:
2.
Unfortunately, we do not hold statistics relating to deaths within the workplace. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) may be better placed to answer your enquiry, as they publish work related injuries on annual basis. To make an FOI request with the HSE, please contact your regional HSE Office.
We do hold data relating to death registrations by occupation, however this would not confirm that the death occurred at a specific place of work. Instead, this would show that the deceased was, for example, a construction worker or involved in a construction trade, non-specific to an organisation.
Data on occupation is coded using the Standard Occupation Classification (SOC 2010). In all, there are 9 major groups of occupations (for example, skilled trades occupations); 25 sub-major groups (for example, skilled construction and building trades); 90 minor groups (for example, building finishing trades); and more than 350 individual occupations (for example, painters and decorators).
We can produce custom data sets looking at ICD-10 codes with specific location codes. Mortality statistics are compiled using the information provided on the death certificate. Cause of death is coded using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). There are numerous ICD-10 codes for accidents ranging from V01 to X59. Therefore, we could create a custom output using a 4-digit ICD-10 code, which would provide deaths where the underlying cause was an external cause or accidental injury by place of accident. We cannot identify all workplaces; we can only provide by the provided areas below:
1. Residential institution
2. School, other institution or public administrative area
3. Sports and athletics area
4. Street or highway
5. Trade and service area
6. Industrial and construction area
7. Farm
8. Other specified places
9. Unspecified place
10. Mine or quarry
11. Public Building
Custom data sets and special tabulations of mortality data are subject to disclosure control, legal frameworks, resources, and agreement to costs under the ONS charging policy.
If you would like to obtain a quote for this work, please contact the customer services team on Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
Also, in case it is helpful, you can request data from 2013 to 2021 from the NOMIS webservice for deaths involving accidents. However, unfortunately, NOMIS does not have data on deaths by place of occurrence which would include the workplace.
3.
Unfortunately, we do not hold statistics on active service deaths. Please contact Ministry of Defence who may be better placed to assist you, they can be contacted by email at cio-foi@mod.uk. Please see summary statistics they publish: UK armed forces deaths in service statistics.
4.
We publish Homicide in England and Wales, which provides findings from the analyses based on the Homicide Index recorded by the Home Office, including long-term trends, sex of the victim, apparent method of killing and relationship to victim. Please see table 4a of the appendix tables for figures by age and sex of the deceased.
Further information and links to guidance can be found via our Crime and justice methodology.
5.
Our annual Suicides in England and Wales provides data for deaths from suicide, from 1981 to 2021. You can find annual counts and rates for England and Wales by sex in table 1. We only hold data on this topic for England and Wales. Data pertaining to Northern Ireland and Scotland can be obtained by contacting Northern Ireland Statistics and research agency at info@nisra.gov.uk and National Records Scotland Requesting Information | National Records of Scotland (nrscotland.gov.uk) respectively.
6.
The information you have requested part of our explorable dataset available on our NOMIS webservice. Please see the following ICD codes attributed to Prostate cancer and Breast Cancer:
- C540 - C549, D05 breast cancer, Carcinoma in situ: Breast
- C61, D075 Prostate cancer, Carcinoma in situ: Prostate
Additionally, please see NOMIS guidance below.
- 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)
We also have a back series of data as part of our 21st century mortality, which contains all-cause mortality data by ICD code, age and sex, 2001 to 2021, England and Wales. you can search the ICD codes in column A.
If you require further assistance with this enquiry, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.
7.
Unfortunately, we do not hold financial information relating to funding of charities or medical research.
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) are responsible for health research and publish information on funding awards. They may be better placed to assist with your queries. Please see the following link to their website: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)