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    • CDC WONDER: Births

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 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 July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 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 cf592a03-2ef9-4f12-ba4f-f4fe513da4d2
    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 6a3bd1ea4231f3153ba77150a633c5533ee5cf42e33cd126aec1d40fdbde32c9
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1995-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2006-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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