infant_mortality: Infant mortality in the US, 2007-2016

Description Usage Format Details Source Examples

Description

CDC records on birth and infant death in the US from 2007 to 2016.

Usage

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Format

A tidy data frame (tibble) with 12,120 observations and 6 variables.

region

Geographical regions of the US as denoted by the federal census: CENS-R1 (Northeast), CENS-R2 (Midwest), CENS-R3 (South), and CENS-R4 (West).

county_id

US counties encoded by a 5-digit number (FIPS code) which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents.

race

Race or ethnicity: Amerind, Asian/PI, Black, Hispanic, White.

age

Age group of the mother: 15, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49. These bins were selected by the CDC.

deaths

The number of deaths of infants less than a year old, 2007–2016.

births

The number of births, 2007–2016.

Details

The CDC data set includes US counties encoded by the 5-digit Federal Information Processing Specification (FIPS) county codes–codes that were superseded in 2009 by the INCITS 31 codes.

County-level data are shown only for counties with populations of 250,000 or more. Because of population changes, data is not available for all counties in all years.

Race/ethnicity data are grouped and summarized into 5 levels: Amerind for indigenous peoples excluding Native Hawaiians, Asian/PI for people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, Black for African Americans, Hispanic for people of Latin American descent, and White.

Source

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WONDER online database, https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D69

Examples

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data(infant_mortality, package = "graphclassmate")
infant_mortality 

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