FRSUG

Association of British Insurers, 51 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HQ, UK
The statistics helpdesk with any queries about ABI data:
Tel: :+ 44 (0) 20 7216 7390
Email: abistats@abi.org.uk

For all other ABI queries please contact the ABI switchboard:
Switchboard: +44 (0) 20 7600 3333
Email: info@abi.org.uk
Fax: +44 (0)20 7696 8999

Tel: +44 (0)20 7543 5600
Fax: +44 (0)20 7543 5700
Email: corporate@cipfa.org.uk
Web: www.cipfa.org.uk

CIPFA Statistical Information Service, Institute of Public Finance Ltd., No. 1 Croydon, 2-16 Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 0XT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8667 1144
Fax: +44 (0)20 8681 6741
Email: sisinfo@ipf.co.uk
Web: www.cipfastats.net

Includes, for example:

• numbers of fire deaths,
• fire-fighter numbers, broken down by type (professional, volunteers, etc.),
• equipment availability, by numbers in broad categories, and
• provision of data both for participating countries and for the largest cities in those countries.

The EHCS is a national survey collecting data on the physical condition of properties, the quality of the local environment and households' characteristics and financial circumstances. Follow up exercises collect property valuations and interviews with landlords. Data are collected on smoke alarm presence. In 1996 questions were also asked on households' experience of fire, although these questions were dropped in the 2001 sweep.

In April 2008 the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) was integrated with the Survey of English Housing (SEH) resulting in a new survey known as the English Housing Survey (EHS).

Like the previous EHCS, it has three component surveys: a household interview, followed by a physical inspection and a market value survey of a sub-sample of the properties.

An exciting development is that the EHS will also form part of the ONS Continuous Population Survey (CPS). The first results from the new English Housing Survey will be available in early 2010.

The SEH is a national survey collecting information on households' members, family relationships, attitudes towards housing and individuals' experiences in both their current and previous housing. With the EHCS, it provides much of the data for DTLR's housing policy development and evaluation. A fire module was incorporated into the survey in 2004/05 and 2006/07.

The Fire Module included questions on Fire risk factors (use of chip pans, candles, heaters etc), Experience of fire (Number of fires in last year, location of fire start, cause of fire, time of fire, was the FRS called, how discovered etc.) and Fire Safety measures (number and type of smoke alarms, when last tested etc.).

In April 2008 the Survey of English Housing (SEH) merged with the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) to form the new English Housing Survey (EHS). To find out more go to the English Housing Survey (EHS) section.

The final fieldwork year for the SEH was 2007/08. These pages provide information about the SEH results, published reports and live tables.

The SEH was a continuous household survey that collected information from nearly 20,000 households each year about the characteristics of their housing and their attitudes to housing and related issues.

The data is aggregated to large geographical areas to maintain anonymity.

If you would like further information about the EHS or wish to be added to the mailing list for our electronic newsletter email: ehs@communities.gsi.gov.uk or Tel: +44 (0)207 944 3526.

This data is less detailed than primary fires collection.

Data on secondary fires (ie usually minor outdoor fires) include: type of fire ie grasslands; refuse; derelict vehicles etc. Some information is available on most likely motive (ie accidental/malicious); and types of extinction method.

Data on chimney fires include: type of property - dwelling or other building

Covers United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Statistics can also be produced on brigade area basis.

Information on secondary fires and chimney fires are collected via an aggregate monthly return (Form FDR3) covering all incidents attended

This data is less detailed than primary fires collection.

Data on false fire alarms include type of false alarm (i.e. malicious false alarms; good intent and due to apparatus)

Data collection has been discontinued. On 2nd May 2003 it was announced that the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) would no longer fund the collection and publication of HASS/LASS data. To ensure that the existing data will continue to be made available to users, a complete copy of the database has been handed over to RoSPA. RoSPA's Information Centre began to answer all incoming HASS/LASS enquiries from 1st January 2004, and will continue to operate this service for five years.

Data from 2000, 2001 and 2002 is available to view on the web www.hassandlass.org.uk/query.

HASS/LASS database goes back to 1978, and for this data you would need to contact RoSPA's Information Centre see details below.

WHOSIS, WHO Statistical Information System, presents the most recent and comprehensive health data on all of the 193 WHO Member States. The data, selected on the basis of quality and availability, relevance to global health, and comparability across member nations, cover over 50 core health indicators, which are organized into six major areas: mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, health system inputs, differentials in health outcome and coverage, as well as basic socio-demographic statistics. These are published in the World Health Statistics that is released in May of each year.

The section of its Mortality Data Base concerned with Causes of Death includes a line for "Deaths from accidents caused by smoke, fire and flames". The resulting figures, which are broken down by sex and by age group, are published annually for most developed countries, and some developing countries, which are WHO members (although the latest year for which data are available varies quite widely among countries). The figures are available online from http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis, and then by clicking successively on "Mortality database", "deaths by cause" and the name of the country in which one is interested.