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Notes:  
For the Personal Demographics Service Birth Notification Data Sets PDS COUNTRY OF BIRTH is the COUNTRY where the PATIENT was born.

Where the PDS COUNTRY OF BIRTH is the Isle of Man, PDS COUNTRY OF BIRTH is recorded using the ISO 3166-1 standard COUNTRY CODE (see the Using the International Organisation for Standardisation website http://www.iso.org/iso/home.htm) for the Isle of Man.

Where the PDS COUNTRY OF BIRTH is England or Wales, PDS COUNTRY OF BIRTH is recorded using the National Codes listed below.

Permitted National Codes:

1	England
3	Wales