deaths_UK: The deaths census for England and Wales (1901-2016)

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Description

This dataset contains numbers and causes of death for England and Wales over the period 1901-2016. The causes of deaths have been classified using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

Usage

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Format

A dataframe 1445659 obs. of 8 variables.

Note

These data have been prepared for use in the paper "The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection" by Stephen Corbett, Alexandre Courtiol, Virpi Lummaa, Jacob Moorad & Stephen Stearns published in Nature Reviews Genetics (2018): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-018-0012-3.

Source

These data were derived files freely available from the Office for National Statistics (http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk).

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