births: Birth outcome data

In probstats4econ: Companion Package to Probability and Statistics for Economics and Business

Birth outcome data

Description

Data on birth outcomes in the United States for December 2021 births where mother's age is between 25 and 35 (inclusive), limited to singleton births, mother's first child, and having non-missing values for relevant variables

Usage

births

Format

births

A data frame with 50,249 rows and 20 columns:

birthtime

Birth time during day (in minutes, range is 0 to 2399)

birthwkday

Day of week of birth (1=Sunday, 2=Monday, ..., 7=Saturday)

age

Mother's age (in years)

nonhsgrad

1 if mother is not a HS graduate, 0 otherwise

hsgrad

1 if mother is HS graduate and has no add'l education, 0 otherwise

somecoll

1 if mother completed some college, 0 otherwise

collgrad

1 if mother is 4-year college graduate, 0 otherwise

married

1 if mother is married, 0 otherwise

smoke1

1 if mother smoked during first trimester, 0 otherwise

smoke2

1 if mother smoked during second trimester, 0 otherwise

smoke3

1 if mother smoked during third trimester, 0 otherwise

smokepre

1 if mother smoked before pregnancy, 0 otherwise

smoke

1 if mother smoked during pregnancy (any trimester), 0 otherwise

prenatal1

1 if first prenatal care during first trimester, 0 otherwise

prenatal2

1 if first prenatal care during second trimester, 0 otherwise

prenatal3

1 if first prenatal care during third trimester, 0 otherwise

nocare

1 if no prenatal care visit, 0 otherwise

male

1 if baby is a boy, 0 otherwise

bweight

Birthweight (in grams)

bweight_lbs

Birthweight (in pounds)

Source

https://www.nber.org/research/data/vital-statistics-natality-birth-data

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