DESCRIPTION OF ENGLISH DISTRICTS HEALTH DATA SET
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This data set was originally derived from 2001 UK census neighbourhood statistics (see http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/).  The full dataset covers 2001 population totals by gender, 1998 finished consultant episodes [FCEs] by age, gender and category and 1998 births and deaths by gender.  A subset of the information is provided here.  Note that for copyright reasons, a simplified version of the boundaries of English districts is supplied.  These boundaries were generated as Thiessen polygons using the centroid for each district.

The attributes of each district are as follows:

DISTCODE  district code 
DISTNAME  district name 
TOTPOP    total pop 2001 
TOTM      male pop 2001
TOTF      female pop 2001
MU16TOT   FCEs male under 16 total 1998
MU16CAN   FCEs male under 16 cancers 1998
MU16ACC   FCEs male under 16 accidents 1998
FU16TOT   FCEs female under 16 total 1998
FU16CAN   FCEs female under 16 cancers 1998
FU16ACC   FCEs female under 16 accidents 1998
BIRM      live births male 1998
BIRF      live births female 1998
BIRTOT    live births total 1998
DEAM      deaths male 1998
DEAF      deaths female 1998
DEATOT    deaths total 1998

