Written Question · S3W-13241 · Session 3
What the standardised mortality rates were per 1,000 population for (a) Dundee, (b) Angus, (c) Tayside and (d) Scotland in the most recent …
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the standardised mortality rates were per 1,000 population for (a) Dundee, (b) Angus, (c) Tayside and (d) Scotland in the most recent period for which figures are available, broken down also by deprivation quintile.
The answer
Standardised death rates per 1,000 population for individual local authority areas, and for Scotland as a whole, for 2006 are given in table 2 of Scotland''s Population 2006, the Annual Report of the Registrar General, published by the General Register Office for Scotland in 2007, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 43115). These figures also appear, together with rates for individual health board areas, in Vital Events Reference Table 1.3, which is available from the GROS Website via this address:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/vital-events-reference-tables-2006/section-1-summary.html.
The other information requested is given in the following table.
Standardised Death Rates and Numbers of Deaths Registered in Scotland in 2006
- by Area1 and SIMD Quintile2
| Standardised Death Rate
Per 1,000 Population3
| Number of Deaths4,5
SIMD Quintile
| Dundee
| Angus
| Tayside H.B.
| Scotland
| Dundee
| Angus
| Tayside H.B.
| Scotland
1
| 12.0
| 12.4
| 12.2
| 14.2
| 614
| 99
| 796
| 13,349
2
| 11.0
| 10.3
| 10.9
| 11.8
| 429
| 215
| 815
| 12,440
3
| 8.9
| 9.9
| 9.9
| 10.6
| 132
| 308
| 791
| 11,304
4
| 9.7
|
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/vital-events-reference-tables-2006/section-1-summary.html.
The other information requested is given in the following table.
Standardised Death Rates and Numbers of Deaths Registered in Scotland in 2006
- by Area1 and SIMD Quintile2
| Standardised Death Rate
Per 1,000 Population3
| Number of Deaths4,5
SIMD Quintile
| Dundee
| Angus
| Tayside H.B.
| Scotland
| Dundee
| Angus
| Tayside H.B.
| Scotland
1
| 12.0
| 12.4
| 12.2
| 14.2
| 614
| 99
| 796
| 13,349
2
| 11.0
| 10.3
| 10.9
| 11.8
| 429
| 215
| 815
| 12,440
3
| 8.9
| 9.9
| 9.9
| 10.6
| 132
| 308
| 791
| 11,304
4
| 9.7
|
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-13241 by reference.