ID 2004: Emergency Hospital Admissions for Health Deprivation in England

Emergency Admissions to Hospital indicator for the Health Deprivation and Disability domain in England. Office for National Statistics publishes this administrative data, which covers Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) across England. The time coverage spans the periods 1999 to 2002 and 2001 to 2003.

Use Cases

• Modeling health deprivation based on emergency admission rates mentioned in the description
• Mapping geographic disparities in hospital emergency care across England's LSOAs
• Analyzing temporal trends in emergency admissions between 1999 and 2003
• Correlating health deprivation indicators with other socio-economic factors

Strengths

• Geographic coverage includes all of England at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level
• Time coverage includes two overlapping multi-year periods: 1999-2002 and 2001-2003
• Data originates from administrative sources processed by the Office for National Statistics

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (originally Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)

Collection Method

Administrative data with statistical transformations applied

Time Range

1999 to 2002 and 2001 to 2003

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:37.551928; freshness should be verified

Geography

England, Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA)