present: Birth rates from 1940 to 2002

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Birth rates from 1940 to 2002

Description

Number of male and female births, sex ratio at birth, and number of excess males: United States, 1940–2002.

Format

A data frame with 63 observations on the following 3 variables. year: a numeric vector, 1940-2002 boys: a numeric vector, number of male births girls: a numeric vector, number of female births

Source

Mathews, TJ and Hamilton, B.E. Trend analysis of the sex ratio at birth in the United States. National Vital Statistics Reports. vol 53, no. 20, pp 1 - 17, 2005. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_20.pdf


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