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    • CDC WONDER: Mortality - Infant Deaths

    Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

    The Mortality - Infant Deaths (from Linked Birth / Infant Death Records) online databases on CDC WONDER provide counts and rates for deaths of children under 1 year of age, occuring within the United States to U.S. residents. Information from death certificates has been linked to corresponding birth certificates. Data are available by county of mother's residence, child's age, underlying cause of death, sex, birth weight, birth plurality, birth order, gestational age at birth, period of prenatal care, maternal race and ethnicity, maternal age, maternal education and marital status. 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

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    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 5f2e0ec4-4aa6-4b00-bc1a-9fa72bbff80c
    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/lbd.html
    Harvest Object Id 140d79f3-929a-4725-9249-772a6786fdfe
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-mortality-infant-deaths
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:015
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2f4db95af976caa0cf66715e842e3137b2ad367d19180b5bf60489087732347f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1995-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2005-12-31T00:00:00-05:00

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