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CDC WONDER: Births

Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

The Births (Natality) online databases in CDC WONDER report birth rates, fertility rates and counts of live births occurring within the United States to U.S. residents and non-residents. Counts can be obtained by state, county, child's sex and weight, mother's race, mother's age, mother's education, gestation period, prenatal care, birth plurality, and mother's medical and tobacco use risk factors. The data are derived from birth certificates. Data are available since 1995. The data are produced by the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
Publisher Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health & Human Services
Maintainer
Identifier 2703dd18-34f2-4101-8a43-9499eba7f787
Data First Published 2012-05-30
Data Last Modified 2025-02-21
Category Health
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:20
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/natality.html
Harvest Object Id b62cbc07-537c-4063-8cea-6ddad3198120
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-births
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Program Code 009:015
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 8057f2c4b95f74d0318ad12c9d38f357941877dd8a29640d97a9ad74286f2253
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1995-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2006-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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