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Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Statistics Division and successors, Vital...
Catalogue reference: RG 62
What's it about?
RG 62
This series contains reports of the Vital Statistics Branch on various internal studies and reviews. They relate to a review of organisation and development in the branch and a study into the possible use of postcodes in the Division.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 62
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Statistics Division and successors, Vital Statistics Branch: Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains reports of the Vital Statistics Branch on various internal studies and reviews. They relate to a review of organisation and development in the branch and a study into the possible use of postcodes in the Division.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Registered files relating to these matters have not survived.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Vital Statistics Branch, 1975-1980
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Census
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Vital Statistics Branch dealt with:
1) processing of infant mortality linkage2) coding and processing divorce, births, stillbirths and deaths forms3) coding occupation, area, birthplace, institution and legitimacy from forms4) cause of death coding5) ad hoc requests from medical researchers6) provision of statistics7) despatch of vital statistics8) supply of data for Monitors, the weekly and monthly publications by OPCS containing statistics, tables etc9) maintenance of the Directory of Layouts and standard procedures. (The Directory of Layouts relate to the format of computer records showing the layout of primary medical and vital statistics records)10) the Oxford Record Linkage Study (The Oxford Record Linkage Study was the creation of a link in a central file of records of births, hospital admissions and deaths for the Oxford area from 1 January 1962)11) matching postcodes to wards. The Vital Statistics Branch existed through the various divisions without a name change.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13387/
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