Births_2014: Medical info on 100,000 randomly sampled births in the US in...

In dtkaplan/SDSdata: Data and utilities for the book Statistics for Data Science

Medical info on 100,000 randomly sampled births in the US in 2014

Description

The Centers for Disease Control collects data on all births registered in the US (50 states + DC). The full data set is provided by the natality2014 package. Births_2014 is a simplified version of natality_2014::Natality_2014_100k with some variables renamed for simplicity and some numerical variables converted to categorical.

Usage

Births_2014

Format

A data frame with a random sample of size 100000 from the complete CDC set of 3,998,175 cases, each of which is a birth in the US in 2014.

• age_mother Mother's age at date of birth

• age_father Father's age at date of birth

• induced Was labor induced?

• ventilator Baby put on mechanical ventilator immediately

• baby_wt Baby's weight (gm)

• gestation Length of gestation

• sex Baby's sex

• plurality Plurality of birth: 2 = twins, 3 = triplets, ...

• apgar5 APGAR score at 5 minutes

• pay Source of payment for delivery

• delivery Method of delivery

• induced Labor induced

• mother_wt_before Mother's weight before pregnancy

• mother_wt_delivery Mother's weight at delivery

• mother_height Mother's height

• cig_0 Number of cigarettes smoked daily before pregnancy

• cig_1 Number of cigarettes smoked daily during first trimester

• cig_2 Number of cigarettes smoked daily during second trimester

• cig_3 Number of cigarettes smoked daily during third trimester

• wic Enrolled in Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program for supplemental nutrition.

• month_start_prenatal Month started in prenatal care. 15 means never started.

• prenatal_visits Number of visits to prenatal care.

See Also

Larger_natality_data_files

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