6/12/2001 = Start date of this file by Jean Roth, jroth@nber.org http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/popbridge/popbridge.htm has 1990-on population data, including bridged race. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/Vitalstatsonline.htm ## OLD http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/Vitalstatsonline.htm has data downloads and selected tables http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/natality.html#Education notes on education variables by year U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth revisions / versions ------------------------------------------------------------ 2003- 2003 revision 1989-2002 1989 revision 1978-1988 HRA-161 Rev 1/78 1968-1977 PHS-796 Rev 1/68 Geographic Code Basis for FIPS codes, Population ------------------------------------------------ 1960 Census: 1968-1969 1970 Census: 1970-1981 1980 Census: 1982-1993 1990 Census: 1994-2002 2000 Census: 2003- PMSA, MSA, NECMA, CMSA Basis: ----------------------------- 1994-2002?: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) June 30, 1990 Note: In 2003, all states were supposed to use the 2003 standard birth certificate. Some states still used the 1989 version. Some variables in the 2003 data come from the 1989 form only, the 2003 form only, or both forms. The documentation indicates the form(s) that the variables came from. 2015-11-02 -- 2014 Territory data files added. 2014 U.S. data files updated. 2015-10-06 -- Natality U.S. and Territory 2009-2014 SAS, Stata, and SPSS read files updated so that bmi is read as a double with one decimal. 2015-10-05 -- Natality 2014 U.S. files added. 2015-05-01 -- 2013 Territory data files replaced. 2014-09-04 -- 2011 Stata file replaced. Had < 1/2 of the observations. 2014-08-01 -- 2012 PDF documentation updated 2014-06-24 -- 1982-2002 SAS, Stata, SPSS read files updated for uniform variable type for geographic variables. 2014-06-23 -- Updated column locations of ip_clam, ip_hepatb, and ip_hepatc variables in 2011-2012. Changed name of ip_gonn to ip_gono to match its flag and disease name. 2014-03-10 -- 2009-2012 files updated to make rf_cesarn two columns wide. Addendum variables addded to 2009-2010 data files and read files. 2014-01-24 -- ip_gonn, ip_syph, ip_chlam, ip_hepatb, ip_hepatc mm_mtr, mm_plac, mm_rupt, mm_uhyst, mm_icu, mm_uoper added to 2011 and 2012 SAS, SPSS, and Stata files. 2013-12-20 -- 2003-2011 SAS, Stata, and SPSS files updated for more consistent names and labels over time. 2013-12-17 -- 2009-2011 U.S. data from CDC updated. 2013-08-01 -- 2011 data added. 2013-07-29 -- origm and orgif, Origin or Descent of Mother/Father variables added to 1978 data file. 2012-10-18 -- 1982-1988 SAS, SPSS, and Stata code updated to read GESTIMP at column 191. 2010-12-13 -- 2008 data added. The 2008 docs currently refer the reader to the 2007 docs. 2010-11-16 -- variables_deleted_in_2007.txt lists over 100 variables from the unrevised birth certificate that were deleted from the 2007 data file. 2009-04-29 -- cig_0 discontinued in 2004. SAS, SPSS, and Stata code updated to reflect this. 2009-04-01 -- Natality data for U.S. Territories 1994-2006 updated and SAS, SPSS, and Stata code and SAS and Stata data added. 2008-04-02 -- 2005 data and SAS, SPSS, and Stata programs added. Note: 2005 public use data does not have geographic variables. This means the 2005 data does not have variables like state, county, msa. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/VitalStats.htm offers select tables, and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/NCHS_DataRelease.htm has information about how to request restricted versions of these files which include geographic variables, etc. 2008-03-25 -- Switched over to data and docs from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/dvs/Vitalstatsonline.htm 2007-06-26 -- 2004 data replaced per NCHS request. 2007-04-06 -- 2004 data added. 2006-08-14 -- 1989-1990 added. 2006-08-08 -- 1986-1988 data added. Thanks to Sara Markowitz for the data. 2006-04-25 -- 2003 data added. 2006-04-24 -- http://www.nber.org/natality/1992/docs/nata92.txt had variable start columns left-shifted one position for GESTAT3-DELMETH5. This seemed to occur because GESTAT10 is two columns wide rather than one. Thanks to Tak-wai Chau. 2004-01-27 -- 2002 data added. 2003-05-15 -- 2000 data updated with 2002-11 Reissued data. 2003-01-21 -- 2000 and 2001 data added. 2003-01-14 -- 1999 data added. 1/30/2002 -- Update -- 1995 Terr & Pop and 1991 & 1992 Pop data changed from continuous stream to carriage return/linefeed characters. Extraneous recfm=f option removed from .sas files. Length of DBIRWT and some geography variables increased to 4 so that the 'not stated' value of DIRBWT, is resolved correctly to 9999 rather than 9998 on Windows/UNIX machines. 9/17/2001 -- Update -- 1995 Natl data changed from continuous stream to carriage return and line feed delimited records -------------------------------------------------- 1: Am J Public Health. 1988 Feb;78(2):168-72. The 1989 revisions of the US Standard Certificates of Live Birth and Death and the US Standard Report of Fetal Death. Freedman MA, Gay GA, Brockert JE, Potrzebowski PW, Rothwell CJ. Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD 20782. The US Standard Certificates and Reports are models used by state vital statistics offices to develop documents for the collection of data about vital events. The 1989 revisions incorporate some major modifications to previous versions. Both the Standard Certificate of Live Birth and the Standard Report of Fetal Death utilize a checkbox format to elicit information on medical and other risk factors affecting the pregnancy, complications of labor and/or delivery, obstetric procedures, method of delivery, congenital anomalies, and abnormal conditions of the newborn. Revisions to the Standard Certificate of Death include modifications to the medical certification section and the addition of decedent's educational attainment. Items requesting information about Hispanic origin are added to all of these documents. The rationale behind these changes and their intended use are discussed. -------------------------------------------------- In 1995 NCHS ceased collecting information on father's education. See the technical appendix. -------------------------------------------------- For 1968-1977 data, state is listed in alphabetical order. This is listed in Appendix A page 33 of natl72_77.pdf . The District of Columbia is treated as "District of Columbia" and has value 9, between Delaware and Florida. --------------------------------------------------