The Demographics dataset is derived from the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) database, which is the national database of all NHS patients in England, Wales and the Isle of Man in or after 2004. People born in these areas are registered and issued an NHS number at birth; people moving into these areas are registered when they first interact with an NHS care setting. Data collected include NHS numbers and date of birth, name, sex and address. A sub-set of this dataset (DEMOGRAPHICS_SUB) containing Study ID, data of birth and sex is provisioned with all NHS England data requests.

Table 2: Please note, individual cohort counts of less than 10 are suppressed to 0 and are therefore excluded from total participant counts for datasets

We are currently building a documentation storage system, which will host relevant and useful documents related to datasets, groupings, and studies themselves. Relevant documentation for this particular dataset will go here.

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