https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/coronavirus-birthdays
Birthday delivery searches surge as children celebrate under lockdown
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/coronavirus-birthdays
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Birthday delivery searches surge as children celebrate under lockdown
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/coronavirus-birthdays
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2020-04-02T14:16:01.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-04-02T15:19:08.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:42:16.914Z (11 months ago)
- Topics: birthdays, coronavirus, google, trends
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52106599
- Size: 136 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Birthday delivery searches surge as children celebrate under lockdown
In April 2020 we [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52106599) on the number of children celebrating birthdays during the coronavirus lockdown. The BBC analysed daily births data for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics, and Google Trends data.
## Get the data
* XLSX: [Analysis of births data](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/coronavirus-birthdays/blob/master/lockdownbirthday.xlsx)
* CSV: [Google trends data for 'birthday delivery'](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/coronavirus-birthdays/blob/master/googletrends_bday_multiTimeline.csv)
## Interviews and quotes
* Charlotte Cook, parent from Castle Bromwich in Solihull
* Spokeswoman, Google
* Stephanie Lack, parent from Rochdale
* Jeffrey Boakye, parent from Hull
* Emma Kasprzak, parent from Shropshire
* Emma Lofthouse-Burch, mother of three from Dewsbury
## Visualisation
* Infographic: How many children are having lockdown birthdays?
* Line chart: Google searches relating to 'birthday delivery', previous 90 days
## Related repos
You can [find all coronavirus-related stories by the BBC data units tagged 'coronavirus' here](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Acoronavirus+org%3ABBC-Data-Unit&type=Repositories)