Biggleswade Urban District (UD) : Births by legitimacy

Births by legitimacy

Data cube chart.

Year Legitimate Illegitimate
31 Dec 1911 127 Show data context 14 Show data context
31 Dec 1912 106 Show data context 8 Show data context
31 Dec 1913 112 Show data context 11 Show data context
31 Dec 1914 125 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1915 124 Show data context 11 Show data context
31 Dec 1916 97 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1917 78 Show data context 14 Show data context
31 Dec 1918 84 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1919 78 Show data context 10 Show data context
31 Dec 1920 124 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1922 100 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1923 94 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1924 93 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1925 97 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1926 88 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1927 91 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1928 95 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1929 90 Show data context 0 Show data context
31 Dec 1930 94 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1931 93 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1932 91 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1933 81 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1934 79 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1935 90 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1936 89 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1937 75 Show data context 2 Show data context
31 Dec 1938 88 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1939 88 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1940 88 Show data context 1 Show data context
31 Dec 1941 82 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1942 99 Show data context 4 Show data context
31 Dec 1943 121 Show data context 2 Show data context
31 Dec 1944 143 Show data context 9 Show data context
31 Dec 1945 104 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1946 107 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1947 134 Show data context 9 Show data context
31 Dec 1948 112 Show data context 9 Show data context
31 Dec 1949 117 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1950 122 Show data context 10 Show data context
31 Dec 1951 108 Show data context 13 Show data context
31 Dec 1952 105 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1953 90 Show data context 1 Show data context
31 Dec 1954 109 Show data context 3 Show data context
31 Dec 1955 105 Show data context 8 Show data context
31 Dec 1956 118 Show data context 10 Show data context
31 Dec 1957 113 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1963 142 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1964 153 Show data context 8 Show data context
31 Dec 1965 132 Show data context 5 Show data context
31 Dec 1966 140 Show data context 11 Show data context
31 Dec 1967 161 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1968 157 Show data context 11 Show data context
31 Dec 1969 162 Show data context 8 Show data context
31 Dec 1970 158 Show data context 12 Show data context
31 Dec 1971 172 Show data context 7 Show data context
31 Dec 1972 165 Show data context 6 Show data context
31 Dec 1973 148 Show data context 5 Show data context
Date Source
1911 - 1920 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office) ,
1922 - 1973 Registrar General, Statistical Review (HM Stationery Office) ,

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The Ministry of Labour's inter-war Local Unemployment Index (LUI) mainly reported rates of unemployment, as percentages. They also listed the total number of persons insured, enabling the actual number unemployed to be calculated, but this was not broken down by sex and age. Between 1927 and 1936 the LUI was known to be imprecise because the unemployed counts included (a) workers insured under the Agricultural Scheme, (b) workers aged between 14 and 16 and (c) workers aged 65 and over, while the count of insured wo...


rkers used as a divisor for the rate did not.

In January 1937 a 'New Series' of the LUI began in which the number recorded as unemployed excluded the above categories. All reports included figures for change in the total percentage unemployed over the preceding twelve months, and those given in the 1937 reports are based on an adjusted figure for the previous year. It is therefore possible for 1936 to compare the rates originally published with corrected rates for the same places and dates. The figures here are the unadjusted rates.


How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Biggleswade Urban District (UD) through time | Historical Statistics on Life & Death | Births by legitimacy, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10153372/cube/BIRTH_LEGIT

Date accessed: 30th July 2026