Deaths caused by strokes during 2016 and 2017

You asked

I am on your website trying to search for the following:

Females in England and Wales who have died of a stroke during 2016/17 aged 70-74 years.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We produce statistics for deaths registered in England and Wales. The latest data available relates to deaths registered in 2016. The data for 2017 is due to be published in July.

The international classification of diseases, version 10 (ICD-10) is used to assign an underlying cause of death from the information provided on the death certificate. Deaths where the underlying cause was a stroke are usually coded to I64 (Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction).

Mortality data by geography, 5-year age groups, sex and underlying cause of death are available for 2013-2016 from our explorable dataset: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/select/getdatasetbytheme.asp?theme=73

You will be able to filter the deaths by females aged 70-74 with an underlying cause of I64 in England and Wales.

Prior to 2013, cause of death data be sex and 5-year age group is available in table 5 of our Deaths registered in England and Wales (series DR) publication:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables

Other special extracts and tabulations of deaths data for England and Wales are available (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement of costs, where appropriate).