stillbirth: Stillbirths in Queensland, 1998-2000

In season: Seasonal analysis of health data

Description

Monthly number of stillbirths in Australia from 1998 to 2000. It is a rare event; there are 352 stillbirths out of 60,110 births. To preserve confidentiality the day of birth has been randomly re-ordered.

Usage

data(stillbirth)

Format

A data frame with 60,110 observations on the following 7 variables.

dob

date of birth (year-month-day)

year

year of birth

month

month of birth

yrmon

a combination of year and month: year+(month-1)/12

seifa

SEIFA score, an area level measure of socioeconomic status in quintiles

gestation

gestation in weeks

stillborn

stillborn (yes/no); 1=Yes, 0=No

Source

From Queensland Health (http://www.health.qld.gov.au/).

Examples

data(stillbirth)
table(stillbirth$month, stillbirth$stillborn)

Example output

Loading required package: ggplot2
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Loading required package: nlme
This is mgcv 1.8-20. For overview type 'help("mgcv-package")'.
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        0    1
  1  4883   37
  2  4603   30
  3  5409   36
  4  4926   27
  5  5096   33
  6  5013   23
  7  5214   26
  8  5075   25
  9  5154   26
  10 5050   25
  11 4650   32
  12 4685   32

season documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:22 p.m.