We’ve published a release showing the significant impact the #COVID19 pandemic has had on patterns of crime.
Our data shows total crime, excluding fraud and computer misuse offences, decreased by 19% compared with the year ending March 2019 ow.ly/uAlM50FBefE
Despite falls across many crime types, there was a large increase in fraud and computer misuse offences.
Estimates show a 36% increase compared with the ending March 2019 ow.ly/hXWc50FBehs
Total police recorded crime excluding fraud and computer misuse decreased by 13%.
The largest decreases in recorded crime were seen during the three-month period that coincided with the first national lockdown (April to June 2020) ow.ly/v3hL50FBekJ
Estimates show theft offences have fallen by 20% compared with the year ending March 2019.
These falls were driven by national lockdown restrictions, with non-essential shops and the night-time economy being closed and people spending more time at home ow.ly/b6iz50FBeou
There were decreases in serious violent crime recorded by the police in the year ending March 2021:
▪️ homicide decreased by 16%
▪️ the number of offences involving knives or sharp instruments decreased by 15%
We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.