It looks like the first is where we got our existing data from (I haven't checked the values). The second would be what we want except that it only gives data per year, not per quarter. I have emailed ONS requesting the information. Barrie Allan Raymond wrote: > Is this where we got or can get the totals? > > Births: 1837-1937 - > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4202&More=Y > > Births: 1938-2004 - > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/xsdataset.asp?vlnk=4274&More=Y > > Allan Raymond > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> > To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:48 PM > Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? > > > A fairly accurate number of birth records for 1938 March Births is 159607. > > Derived from 1057 pages in the Index for this quarter multiplied by 151 > (entries per page) > > Why 151? > > Because 322 pages uploaded to date for this quarter realised 48670 entries > (48670/322 = 151.15). > > The same could be done for the other quarters. > > Or is this a flawed way to calculate the totals? > > Allan Raymond > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barrie" <freebmd@myarcher.net> > To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:07 AM > Subject: Re: Progress Bar-charts not updated? > > > The reason turns out to be that, for Births, we only have totals from > the GRO up to 1937. For Marriages and Deaths we have the totals up to 1983. > > Since the graphs are percentages, not having the total makes it kinda > difficult! > > I have no idea how we got the totals from the GRO but I will investigate. > > Barrie > > Richard Oliver wrote: > >> Someone is going to ask me this question in the next few hours, so can >> someone else please help me with a ready answer? >> >> My Syndicate has been busying away at 1938 March Births for 6-7 weeks, and >> we have collectively uploaded around 235 page files (35,000 records), >> around 23% of the Quarter. And yet the chart at >> http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressB.shtml#1930 suggests we haven't done >> a stroke of work, and shows zero. >> >> The chart itself must be out of sync, as a random check - on just a couple >> of records uploaded by me - shows they are indeed in the database. So how >> come a discrepancy like that? >> >> Richard Oliver >> Madrid, Spain >> richol@arrakis.es >> >> >> > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner-- > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --Certified Virus Free by 4SecureMail.com ICSA-Certified Scanner--