You asked
I would like to request the data on the amount of recorded suicides and accidental deaths (separately) in Carlisle, Cumbria year on year from 2015 up to and including 2020.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Our mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. All of the conditions mentioned on the death certificate are coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules.
Accidental deaths are defined by ICD-10 codes V01-X59. Numbers of deaths where the underlying cause was an accident, by local authority, for the period 2015 to 2020, can be obtained via NOMIS.
NOMIS is an interactive web service that provides mortality statistics for England and Wales, broken down by calendar year of registration, age, sex, underlying cause of death and area of usual residence of the deceased. Please see the following instructions on how to use NOMIS:
- 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)
| Year | Deaths |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 54 |
| 2018 | 27 |
| 2019 | 42 |
| 2020 | 66 |
Download this table Number of deaths where the underlying cause was an accident, Carlisle, 2015 to 2020 registrations:
.xls .csvThe number of suicides for England and Wales are available here: Suicides in England and Wales: 2019 registrations. Data by local authority for the period 2002 to 2019 are available in the accompanying dataset: Suicides in England and Wales by local authority. This publication will be updated to include 2020 data in September 2021; when a publication date is finalised it will be announced via our release calendar.
| Year | Deaths |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 13 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 11 |
Download this table Suicide registrations in Carlisle, 2015 to 2019:
.xls .csvSuspected suicide deaths require an inquest, where a coroner investigates the death. The amount of time it takes to hold an inquest causes a delay between the date of death and the date of death registration, referred to as a registration delay. Registration delays for deaths caused by suicide tend to be 5 to 6 months on average. More information about the impact of registration delays is available here. Therefore, we don't publish data until around nine months after the last complete calendar year.
We also produce provisional suicide data for England on a quarterly basis, with the most recent update including deaths that were registered from October to December of 2020. Unfortunately, we do not hold provisional analysis by Local Authority, but figures by region are available on Table 3. This publication presented numbers of deaths registered in 2020 with the median registration delay in Quarter 4 2020 being 177 days.
If you wish to discuss this further, please contact: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.