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24 new resources have been added to the website since the last update. In addition 103(!) resources have been updated.

Data highlights

DWP Benefit quarterly updates

Data for a range of key DWP benefit datasets has been updated for May 2011. These updates have been released on Nomis and DWP. These indicators can be used to compare levels of worklessness, disability and low income across neighbourhoods in Britain. The following indicators are included:

• Income Support
• Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance
• Jobseekers Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance
• Pension Credit
• State Pension
• Carers Allowance.

Office for National Statistics website update

The ONS have revised their website to improve navigation around the site and provide additional functionality. As a result all of the links have changed, and had broken on the data4nr site. We have now searched through the website and fixed broken links for the following variables:

• Births by country of birth
• Births outside of Marriage
• Business demography
• Civil Partnerships
• Conceptions - Under 18s
• Congenital anomaly statistics
• Deaths by area of residence - monthly counts
• Employee jobs by broad industry group
• Flag 4 GP Registrations
• Gross Value Added (GVA) per head
• International and internal migration estimates
• Life Expectancy aged 65
• Life expectancy at birth
• Life expectancy at birth for wards
• Life Expectancy: Healthy and Disability-Free Years for wards
• Live births
• Live births by age of mother
• Live births by ethnicity by area of usual residence of mother
• Local migration indicators
• Mid Year Population Estimates (MYEs): components of population change
• Mortality: infant and perinatal
• Population by country of birth and nationality
• Public and private sector employee job estimates
• Standardised mortality ratio
• Teenage pregnancy: quarterly conceptions
• Teenage pregnancy: Under 18 conception rate and percentage leading to abortion
• Unemployment estimates: Local areas
• VAT registered businesses by turnover size
• VAT registered enterprises: Survival rates
• Workless households

NHS indicator portal

The NHS IC have developed a new indicator portal (effectively a neighbourhood statistics for health data) http://indicators.ic.nhs.uk. This indicator portal brings together data all indicators from the Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base (also known as NCHOD and the Compendium of Population Health Indicators) and the Local Basket of Inequalities Indicators and key datasets from the public health observatories on a single searchable website. We now link the following indicators on the indicator portal

• Accidental falls: Mortality rate
• Acute sickness
• Alcohol Profile:  Mortality from chronic liver disease - females
• Alcohol Profile:  Mortality from chronic liver disease - males
• Asthma: Mortality rate
• Bladder cancer: Mortality rate
• Breast cancer: Mortality rate
• Bronchitis and emphysema: Mortality rate
• Cancer mortality
• Cervical cancer: Mortality rate
• Chronic renal failure: Mortality rate
• Chronic rheumatic heart disease: Mortality rate
• Colorectal cancer: Mortality rate
• Conceptions for those aged under 16
• Coronary Heart Disease: Mortality rate
• Diabetes: Mortality rate
• Emergency hospital admissions and timely surgery: fractured proximal femur
• Emergency hospital admissions for children with asthma
• Emergency hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infections
• Emergency hospital admissions for diabetes
• Emergency readmissions to hospital within 28 days of discharge
• Epilepsy: Mortality rate
• Fracture of femur: Mortality rate
• Heart disease mortality
• Hospital admissions: Accidents
• Incidence of all skin cancers (all)
• Incidence of bladder cancer
• Incidence of breast cancer(all)
• Incidence of cancers (all)
• Incidence of colorectal  cancer (all)
• Incidence of lung cancer(all)
• Incidence of malignant melanoma
• Incidence of oesophageal cancer
• ·         Incidence of prostate cancer(all)
• ·         Incidence of stomach cancer
• ·         Leukaemia: Mortality rate
• ·         Lung cancer: mortality rate
• ·         Mortality from causes amenable to health care
• ·         Mortality from gastric, duodenal and peptic ulcers
• ·         Mortality from Hodgkin’s disease
• ·         Mortality from hypertensive disease
• ·         Mortality from infectious and parasitic disease
• ·         Mortality from land transport accidents
• ·         Mortality from malignant melanoma
• ·         Mortality from skull fracture and intracranial injury
• ·         Mortality rate from all accidents
• ·         Neuroses: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         NI 120 - All-age all cause mortality
• ·         Number of childcare places available
• ·         Number of recorded racial incidents per 100,000 resident population
• ·         Oesophageal cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Pneumonia: Mortality rate
• ·         Prostate cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Schizophrenia: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         Stomach cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Stroke: Deaths within 30 days of emergency admission to hospital
• ·         Stroke: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         Strokes: Mortality rate
• ·         Suicide mortality rates
• ·         Tuberculosis: mortality rate
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All accidents
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All causes
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Coronary Heart Disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Hodgkin’s disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Malignant melanoma
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Stroke
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Suicide
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Asthma
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Bladder cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Breast cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Bronchitis and emphysema
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Cervical cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Chronic renal failure
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Colorectal cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Diabetes
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Due to accidental falls: Mortality rate
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Epilepsy
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Gastric, duodenal and peptic ulcers
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Hypertensive disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Infectious and parasitic disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Land transport accidents
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Leukaemia
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Lung cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Oesophageal cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Pneumonia
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Prostate cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Stomach cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Tuberculosis