Monthly Death Registrations in Victoria, Australia

Deaths are counted in the month they are registered by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria. The data is sourced from mandatory notifications by doctors, funeral directors, and the Coroner for reportable deaths. The dataset is available in XLSX format under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-09.

Use Cases

• Analyzing monthly trends in death registration counts based on the time-series nature of the data.
• Studying administrative reporting lags based on the description that deaths are counted by registration month, not occurrence month.
• Investigating the impact of reportable death procedures based on the mention of Coroner notifications.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The description clarifies the distinction between death occurrence and registration month.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria

Collection Method

Mandatory notifications from doctors, funeral directors, and the Coroner.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 01:10:16.714414; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia