This CD-ROM contains the Natality Detail public use files for 2004. The data files are in ASCII  format and the United States  file has been compressed. The United States file is named Nat03us.zip while the Territories file is named Nat03ps.dat.  Documentation is contained in the file Natdoc03.pdf.  This is an Adobe Acrobat file.


WARNING! DATA USE RESTRICTIONS
  
        Read Carefully Before Using
  
                                                                 
 The Public Health Service Act (Section 308) (d) provides that the data 
 collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for 
 Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), may be used only for the purpose of 
 health statistical reporting and analysis.
  
 Any effort to determine the identity of any reported case is prohibited 
 by this law.
  
 NCHS does all it can to assure that the identity of data subjects cannot 
 be disclosed.  All direct identifiers, as well as any characteristics that 
 might lead to identification, are omitted from these datasets.  Any 
 intentional identification or disclosure of a person or establishment 

 violates the assurances of confidentiality given to the providers of the 
 information.  Therefore, users will:
  
  1.  Use the data in these datasets for statistical reporting and analysis 
      only.
  
  2.  Make no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered 
      inadvertently and advise the Director, NCHS, of any such discovery.
  
  3.  Not link these datasets with individually identifiable data from other 
      NCHS or non-NCHS datasets.