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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Smoke alarm failures at fires in buildings by reason and financial year
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Click here to sort2008-09Since April 2009, data have been collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS). This has replaced the previous FDR paper forms and may cause an increase in the reporting of some categories of fire from 2009-10 onwards.Click here to sort2009-10Since April 2009, data have been collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS). This has replaced the previous FDR paper forms and may cause an increase in the reporting of some categories of fire from 2009-10 onwards.Click here to sort2010-11Click here to sort2011-12Click here to sort2012-13Click here to sort2013-14Revised dataClick here to sort2014-15Provisional data
[Collapse]All reasons389499476443478451440
All reasonsAlarm battery missing..|The data item is not available354326241918
Alarm battery defective..|The data item is not available301418212230
System not set up correctly..|The data item is not available664513
System damaged by fire..|The data item is not available901243
Fire not close enough to detector..|The data item is not available183203201238226217
Fault in system..|The data item is not available311822231015
System turned off..|The data item is not available1268588
Fire in area not covered by system..|The data item is not available503854494950
Detector removed..|The data item is not available10141015137
Alerted by other means..|The data item is not available735242423744
Other..|The data item is not available497437394334
Unknown..|The data item is not available11820151911

Metadata

Title

Smoke alarm failures at fires in buildings

Last update

July 2015 July 2015

Next update

July 2016

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Fire incident recording system, Department for Communities and Local Government

Contact email

stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Fire and rescue authorities

Geographical coverage

Fire and rescue authorities

Languages covered

English only

General description

Number of smoke alarms in building fires which failed to operate, by reason.
Note: data refers to number of smoke alarms rather than fires. There are a small number of incidents where more than one smoke alarm was located in the building and the details for each smoke alarm have been included in these tables.
Note: 2008-09 Figures are partially based on sampled data, weighted to true brigade totals.
2009-10 data were extracted from IRS in May 2011.
2010-11 data were extracted from IRS in May 2012.
2011-12 data were extracted from IRS in May 2013.
2012-13 data were extracted from IRS in May 2014.
2013-14 and 2014-15 data were extracted in June 2015.
2014-15 data are provisional and will be updated next year
Added to StatsWales: July 2011
Source: Department for Communities and Local Government
Contact: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Data collection and calculation

Data prior to 2009-10 were collected via the Fire Data Report (FDR) paper forms.
Data from 2009-10 onwards were collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Financial years 2008-09 to 2014-15

Users, uses and context

The data are used to inform policy decisions and to provide contextual information. The data is used by the Welsh Government to help monitor trends in incidents attended by FRSs over time and provides information on FRSs’ performance and activities to citizens and communities in Wales.
See web link for further information.

Rounding applied

Fire data prior to 2009-10 are based on a sampled dataset and so are rounded to the nearest whole number. For this reason the sum of component parts may not equal the totals shown.

Revisions information

Revisions are marked with an (r). The most recent year currently shown is provisional and may be revised when the table is next updated.

Statistical quality

See web link

Keywords

Fire, Fire and Rescue Service, Smoke alarm, Smoke Alarm failure

Name

CSAF0050