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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.

Access & Use Information

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 fb7cc429-69d2-4424-b287-68855af600ff
Data First Published 2012-08-03
Data Last Modified 2025-02-21
Category Health
Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Human 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 d6a5d7bc-7db2-4712-8dab-c66532d16dce
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-births-0
License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
Program Code 009:015
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 24fc26b43b2e5fa25dcb3c86cf27c4913c0db243155977909d9777d04fcc6c73
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 1995-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2009-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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