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3. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
The crude birth and death rates for local areas
cannot properly be compared by reason of the fact that the
populations on which they are based may be of widely differing
sex and age constitutions. Consequently the Registrar General
provides a comparability factor for each area. When the crude
rate of any area is multiplied by this factor an adjusted rate
is produced which can be used to compare with the adjusted
rate of any other area, or with the crude rate for England and
Wales as a whole (where the comparability factor is unity).
The comparability factors for Kingston-upon-Thames
are Births 0.96; Deaths 0.92.
The birth and death rates in respect of the town are
shown overleaf and for the purpose of providing some comparison
the rates for England and Wales are also shown. It will be
noticed that the rates for Kingston-upon-Thames are lower than
for the country as a whole.