Subject: Vital Statistics Births Data 1975-1997
From: Jean Roth (jroth@nber.org)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 09:13:18 EDT
Vital Statistics Births Data 1975-1997
The NBER now has a complete set of birth data from the
National Vital Statistics System of the National Center
for Health Statistics from 1975 to 1997.
Documentation and SAS input files are available with the
data. The data are UNIX compressed ASCII format and can
be uncompressed with the UNIX uncompress command or the
software downloadable at the website. I can loan out
cd-rom copies of the larger files.
I am available for consultations via e-mail, in person, and
on the telephone.
Jean Roth
NBER Data Manager
617-588-0338
jroth@nber.org
Locations:
NBER Vital Statistics Main Page:
http://www.nber.org/data/vital.html
or www.nber.org --> Data --> Vital Statistics
Birth Cohort Linked Birth/Infant Death -- 1985-1991
http://www.nber.org/data/lbid.html
Natality Data -- 1975-1985 & 1991-1995
http://www.nber.org/data/natality.html
Period Linked Birth/Infant Death -- 1995-1997
http://www.nber.org/data/perinatal.html
Internally, the data is available at /home/data/lbid,
/home/data/natality, and /home/data/perinatal.
More detail:
Demographic data include variables such as date of birth,
age, educational attainment of parents, marital status, live
birth order, race, sex, and geographic area.
Health data include items such as birth weight, gestation,
prenatal care, attendant at birth, and Apgar score.
Observations per year range from 2,323,406 to 4,163,150.
The death data includes the deaths to infants less than
one year of age.
