April 27, 2021 expert reaction to ONS stats on deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 16 April 2021
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Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released provisional counts of the number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 16 April 2021.
Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, The Open University, said:
“This is another week where the numbers and short-term trends in the provisional death registration data for England and Wales are difficult to interpret because of the recent Easter holidays. The latest figures are for the week 10-16 April – that’s after all the bank holidays, so that the changes in late registrations because of the holidays should have ended and the actual counts for the latest week are probably comparable to other non-holiday weeks – but the numbers from the previous week, and the week before that, definitely weren’t, because they included the East
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