birth_in_hospital: Birth In Hospital

In Mikuana/vitalstatistics: CDC Vital Statistics Analysis Tools

Description

A logical field indicating whether the birth occurred within a hospital.

Details

This column is highly derived from the source data, as the data collected on birth facility type have varied a great since 1968. From 1968 to 1977, the "Attendant at Birth" field tracked whether the birth occurred within a hospital or institution, and if not it tracked the kind of provider that attended the birth (physician or midwife). From 1975 to 1977, a new field was added which was more specifically focused on place, rather than combining place and attending provider type into a single field. From 1978 to 1988, a slight refinement of this place focused field was introduced. And then finally in 1989 to most modern form of the field was introduced, which simply tracks whether the birth occurred in a hospital, or not. To generate our logical column, we use a two step process where all of these older fields are mapped to the values of the most recent (e.g. "Births not in hospitals; Attended by physician' ~= "Not in Hospital"), and then converted into a logical, within NA values for missing/unknown data.

Value

a logical column

Data Quality Tests

This column is tested for the following quality assumptions prior to packaging:

1. non-NA values exist in each expected year

See Also

births

Other births-column: birth_month_date, birth_state, birth_via_cesarean, birth_weekday_date, child_sex, mother_age

Mikuana/vitalstatistics documentation built on May 7, 2019, 4:57 p.m.