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 # Visualisation of birth trends in England and Wales: <br>Relation with age group, deprivation and country of birth
 
+This project aimed to generate a composite visualisation to examine birth trends in relation to various socio-demographic characteristics. The specific research questions 
+were listed as follows:
+1.	What has been the trend of live births in England and Wales over the past decade?
+2.	What patterns are observed in the differences between the number of live births in England and Wales among mothers aged under 30 and those aged older?
+3.	What relationships are inferred between levels of deprivation and the incidence of stillbirths in England and Wales?
+4.	How does the live birth proportion in England and Wales vary between mothers born in the UK and those born outside the UK?
+<br/>
+
+The primary dataset used in the study was obtained from the birth registrations data (2023) provided by the Office for National Statistics:
+> https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthsinenglandandwalesbirthregistrations/2023/2023birthregistrations.xlsx
+
+To visualise the combination of jitter plot, box plot and violin plot, a secondary dataset from the ONS was employed:
+> https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/childmortalitystatisticschildhoodinfantandperinatalchildhoodinfantandperinatalmortalityinenglandandwales/2022/cim2022deathcohortworkbook.xlsx
+
+To visualise the butterfly chart, this dataset from the ONS was used:
+> https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/parentscountryofbirth/2023/2023birthsbyparentscountryofbirth.xlsx
+
+The experiment was carried out using R programming language version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14) and software RStudio Desktop 
+for macOS version 2024.12.0+467. Besides the R base packages, the following packages were also used: 
+- `tidyverse`
+- `readxl`
+- `reshape2`
+- `ggstatsplot`
+- `patchwork`
+- `MetBrewer`
+- `ggtext`
+
+> [!TIP]
+> Instructions on how to run the code were provided in file: [INSTRUCTION.md](INSTRUCTION.md)
+<br/>
+
+### Composite Visualisation
+<br/>
+
+![Composite](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7c5eafce-dd79-4baf-a0a6-57dafca3cd2c)