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The UK Gov website https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths stipulates a total of 148,125 Deaths with COVID-19 on the death certificate as of March 24th 2021, of which England accounts for 128,507 and Wales 7,731.
At this address the ONS Gov website, the Covid latest insights page, under the subheading "The majority of deaths involving COVID-19 were in people aged 75 years and over in the latest week" you provide data for Number of deaths registered by week and age group, 28 December 2019 to 12 March 2021, England and Wales. The total deaths from the data in the xcel sheet is 56,782.
Why is there a disparity of 79,456 deaths between the two data sets? How do you define a death involving Covid?
Can you please provide full data set for the UK (or broken down into its constituents) of deaths involving Covid-19 by age, where age is not grouped (i.e total occurrences for each 1 year of age).
Can you please provide full data set for the UK (or broken down into its constituents) of hospital admissions for Covid-19 by age, where age is not grouped (i.e total occurrences for each 1 year of age).
Can you please provide full data set for the UK (or broken down into its constituents) of positive test results for Covid-19 by age, where age is not grouped (i.e total occurrences for each 1 year of age).
Can you please provide full data set for the UK (or broken down into its constituents) of 'Long Covid' (as per your definition) by age, where age is not grouped (i.e total occurrences for each 1 year of age).
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Thank you for your request.
The mortality data published by ONS are derived from the formal process of death registration and covers England and Wales. For Scotland and Northern Ireland statistics please contact National Records Scotland (NRS) and NISRA respectively.
Disparity in Numbers:
We have tried to replicate your calculations using the second link provided but we have not been able to so. We have however established that the total number of 148,125 was based on information provided by the ONS, NRS and NISRA covering the pandemic period up to 12 March 2021. The cumulative total for the same period based on data published by the ONS is 149,715 deaths. A difference of 1,590 deaths. This difference is due to differences in methodology, which leads to the ONS data being published later thereby having more deaths.
How do we define deaths involving COVID-19:
Any death which has COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate is included in our 'deaths involving COVID-19' counts.
More information can be found on the following webpage: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending9april2021
Provide data of deaths involving COVID-19 total occurrence by each 1 year of age:
Unfortunately, we do not hold analysis on deaths involving COVID-19 by single year of age. However, please see the following link to our ONS weekly deaths datasets for England and Wales. The 'Covid-19 -- weekly registrations' table for deaths involving COVID-19 by five-year age group.
Provide data of hospital admissions for COVID-19 by each 1 year of age:
We do not hold data on hospitalisations by single year of age. Public Health England (PHE) hold data on hospitalisations. To contact them for this data, please email wn_coronavirus@phe.gov.uk.
Provide data of positive test results for COVID- 19 by each 1 year of age:
The COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS) is a representative household survey which estimates the number of people testing positive for COVID-19. Our statistics refer to infections reported in the community, by which we mean private households. These figures exclude infections reported in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings.
You can find the modelled estimates of daily rates of the percentage of the population testing positive for COVID-19 by single year of age in the dataset accompanying our latest bulletin:
- In England on tab 1h
- In Wales on tab 3e
- In Northern Ireland on tab 4e
- In Scotland on tab 5e
Provide data of long COVID by each 1 year of age
Unfortunately, we do not hold analysis pertaining to long-COVID-19 by single year of age. However, you may find the following information useful, as this provides some statistics on those with long COIVD-19 for England and Wales: Prevalence of long COVID symptoms and COVID-19 complications.