Government of Jersey

Births and deaths registration 2015 to 2021

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 12 August 2022.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

I request information on the number of births and deaths from 2015 to 2021 by month of occurrence.

Response

Prior to January 2018 births were recorded in paper format only and the data not held by month of occurrence.

Therefore, the information, as requested, is not held in recorded form. To answer the request, the data would need to be extracted from various sources and manipulated, aside from taking more than the prescribed 12.5 hours to do that work, the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 does not require a Scheduled Public Authority to manipulate data in order to provide a response. Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has therefore been applied.

The number of births registered by month between January 2018 and June 2022 are as follows:

Year \| Month (Registration)	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Grand Total
2018	91	56	66	76	92	81	88	89	65	89	79	83	955
2019	69	89	78	68	74	68	76	92	89	75	78	63	919
2020	67	54	43	104	55	70	87	71	100	61	72	57	841
2021	90	69	86	81	55	83	58	72	91	84	64	62	895
2022	66	54	81	62	81	83							427

Prior to January 2018 deaths were recorded in paper format only and the data not held by month of occurrence.

The number of deaths registered by month between January 2018 and June 2022 are as follows:

Year \| Month (Registration)	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Grand Total
2018	85	64	82	71	84	73	70	59	47	62	57	78	832
2019	73	72	64	64	72	60	63	64	62	64	62	76	796
2020	59	56	62	88	45	53	64	44	60	54	60	72	717
2021	94	67	70	73	50	50	65	68	66	86	61	77	827
2022	70	72	80	79	68	79							448

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.