Comparative statistics on deaths in faith communities during the pandemic

The office for national statistics has produced ‘Deaths involving COVID-19 by religious group, England: 24 January 2020 to 28 February 2021’ explaining the experience of death and bereavement by different faith communities during the pandemic

‘This article reports age-standardised rates of death involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) by religious group and uses statistical models to adjust for location, measures of disadvantage, occupation, living arrangements, and pre-existing health conditions. It compares the risk of COVID-19 mortality in two discrete periods aligned to each wave of the pandemic.’

1. Main points

2. Overview

3. Age-standardised rates of death involving COVID-19 by religious group

4. Risk of death involving COVID-19 by religious group, adjusting for location, measures of disadvantage, occupation, living arrangements, and pre-existing health conditions

5. Difference between the risk of death involving COVID-19 by religious group in the first and second waves of the pandemic

6. Deaths involving COVID-19 by religious group, England, data

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