US Births by County and State

1985-2015 Aggregated Data

By data.world's Admin [source]

About this dataset

This dataset contains an aggregation of birth data from the United Statesbetween 1985 and 2015. It consists of information on mothers' locations by state (including District of Columbia) and county, as well as information such as the month they gave birth, and aggregates giving the sum of births during that month. This data has been provided by both the National Bureau for Economic Research and National Center for Health Statistics, whose shared mission is to understand how life works in order to aid individuals in making decisions about their health and wellbeing. This dataset provides valuable insight into population trends across time and location - for example, which states have higher or lower birthrates than others? Which counties experience dramatic fluctuations over time? Given its scope, this dataset could be used in a number of contexts--from epidemiology research to population forecasting. Be sure to check out our other datasets related to births while you're here!

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How to use the dataset

This dataset could be used to examine local trends in birth rates over time or analyze births at different geographical locations. In order to maximize your use of this dataset, it is important that you understand what information the various columns contain.

The main columns are: State (including District of Columbia), County (coded using the FIPS county code number), Month (numbering from 1 for January through 12 for December), Year (4-digit year) countyBirths (calculated sum of births that occurred to mothers living in a county for a given month) and stateBirths (calculated sum of births that occurred to mothers living in a state for a given month). These fields should provide enough information for you analyze trends across geographic locations both at monthly and yearly levels. You could also consider combining variables such as Year with State or Year with Month or any other grouping combinations depending on your analysis goal.

In addition, while all data were downloaded on April 5th 2017, it is worth noting that all sources used followed privacy guidelines as laid out by NCHC so individual births occurring after 2005 are not included due to geolocation concerns.
We hope you find this dataset useful and can benefit from its content! With proper understanding of what each field contains, we are confident you will gain valuable insights on birth rates across counties within the United States during this period

Research Ideas

• Establishing county-level trends in birth rates for the US over time.
• Analyzing the relationship between month of birth and health outcomes for US babies after they are born (e.g., infant mortality, neurological development, etc.).
• Comparing state/county-level differences in average numbers of twins born each year

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. Data Source

License

See the dataset description for more information.

Columns

File: allBirthData.csv | Column name | Description | |:-----------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | State | The numerical order of the state where the mother lives. (Integer) | | Month | The month in which the birth took place. (Integer) | | Year | The year of the birth. (Integer) | | countyBirths | The calculated sum of births that occurred to mothers living in that county for that particular month. (Integer) | | stateBirths | The aggregate number at the level of entire states for any given month-year combination. (Integer) | | County | The county where the mother lives, coded using FIPS County Code. (Integer) |

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit the original authors. If you use this dataset in your research, please credit data.world's Admin.

This dataset contains counts of live births for California counties based on information entered on birth certificates. Final counts are derived from static data and include out of state births to California residents, whereas provisional counts are derived from incomplete and dynamic data. Provisional counts are based on the records available when the data was retrieved and may not represent all births that occurred during the time period.

The final data tables include both births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to California residents (by residence), whereas the provisional data table only includes births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence). The data are reported as totals, as well as stratified by parent giving birth's age, parent giving birth's race-ethnicity, and birth place type. See temporal coverage for more information on which strata are available for which years.

Number and percentage of live births, by month of birth, 1991 to most recent year.

This dataset contains counts of live births for California as a whole based on information entered on birth certificates. Final counts are derived from static data and include out of state births to California residents, whereas provisional counts are derived from incomplete and dynamic data. Provisional counts are based on the records available when the data was retrieved and may not represent all births that occurred during the time period.

The final data tables include both births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to California residents (by residence), whereas the provisional data table only includes births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence). The data are reported as totals, as well as stratified by parent giving birth's age, parent giving birth's race-ethnicity, and birth place type. See temporal coverage for more information on which strata are available for which years.

Live births and stillbirths annual summary statistics, by sex, age of mother, whether within marriage or civil partnership, percentage of non-UK-born mothers, birth rates and births by month and mothers' area of usual residence.

US Births - How Common is Your Birthday?

How popular is your birthday?

By Andy Kriebel [source]

About this dataset

The file contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014. The data includes the following columns: year: The year of the observation. (Integer) month: The month of the observation. (Integer) date_of_month: The date of the observation. (Integer) day_of_week: The day of the week of the observation. (Integer) births: The number of births on the given day. (Integer)

How to use the dataset

The US Births dataset on Kaggle contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014. The data is broken down by year, month, date of month, day of week, and births.

This dataset can be used to answer questions about when people are born, how common certain birthdays are, and any trends over time. For example, you could use this dataset to find out which day of the week has the most births or which month has the most births

Research Ideas

• Determining which day of the year and what time of day that people are mostly born to help with staffing levels in maternity wards
• Identifying trends in baby names over time
• Predicting the number of births on a given day

Acknowledgements

This data set is a combined effort of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Social Security Administration, provided by FiveThirtyEight. It contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014, with the following columns: year, month, date_of_month, day_of_week, births

->Thank you to FiveThirtyEight for providing this dataset!

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License

License: Dataset copyright by authors - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. - Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - You must: - Give appropriate credit - Provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. - ShareAlike - You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. - Keep intact - all notices that refer to this license, including copyright notices.

Columns

File: US_births_1994-2014.csv | Column name | Description | |:------------------|:---------------------------------------------| | year | Year of the data. (Integer) | | month | Month of the data. (Integer) | | date_of_month | Day of the month of the data. (Integer) | | day_of_week | Day of the week of the data. (Integer) | | births | Number of births on the given day. (Integer) |

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Andy Kriebel.

Note: This dataset is historical only and there are not corresponding datasets for more recent time periods. For that more-recent information, please visit the Chicago Health Atlas at https://chicagohealthatlas.org. This dataset contains the annual number of births to mothers aged 15-19 years old and annual birth rate (births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 years) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals, by Chicago community area, for the years 1999 – 2009. See the full dataset description for more information: https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/assets/80918D2A-38FF-4A2C-9831-CD3EAC3C02BC

Note: This dataset is historical only and there are not corresponding datasets for more recent time periods. For that more-recent information, please visit the Chicago Health Atlas at https://chicagohealthatlas.org.

This dataset contains the annual number of births and crude birth rate (births per 1,000 residents) with corresponding 95% confidence intervals, by Chicago community area, for the years 1999 – 2009. See the full dataset description for more information: https://data.cityofchicago.org/api/assets/8C4E8E51-6162-4DF3-9C29-D3F205FA2FB4

Annual live births in England and Wales by age of mother and father, type of registration, median interval between births, number of previous live-born children and National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on the number of live births by the mother's country of birth in England and Wales each year. Every time a birth is registered in England and Wales both parents are required to state their places of birth on their child's birth certificate, and this information is then collated to produce these statistics. In order to make it easier to look at what these data tell us about births in London, and how these have been changing over time, the GLA Demography team has extracted the data which relate to London from the main ONS dataset since 2001 and presented it here in an easily accessible format. For more information about how the ONS produces these statistics, please visit their website: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths

For more information about how we extracted these data and created this report, please this project's Github repository: https://github.com/Greater-London-Authority/births_by_mothers_country_of_birth

Since 2001, the number of live births being recorded in London has changed from 104,162 to 106,129 births per year. The proportion of births which were to mothers who had been born outside the UK has changed from 43% in 2001 to 60% in the most recent year (2024). In 2024, the region of origin which supplied the largest number of births to non-UK-born mothers in London was Asia with 27,269, followed by the Africa which provided 10,696. The region of origin which has seen the largest change since 2001 is the Asia, which went from 13,489 live births per year in 2001 to 27,269 in 2024.

In 2024, the region with the largest number of births to non-UK-born mothers was London with 63,460 live births (% of all live births in London). By contrast, the region with the lowest number of births to non-UK-born mothers was the Wales with 4,330 live births to non-UK-born mothers, which only represented 16% of all live births in that region. The data shows that London accounted for 31% of all the births to non-UK-born mothers in England and Wales in 2024, which was a far higher proportion than any other region. These data also highlight a couple of other interesting comparisons. Firstly, despite being the second largest region in England and Wales in terms of population, London is not the region with the largest number of births to UK-born mothers. Secondly, London is the only region to have relatively large numbers of mothers from every region of the world according to the way in which the ONS has categorised them, including Africa, non-EU European countries (such as Turkey and Russia) and the 'Rest of the World' (which includes the Americas and Oceania). The data comparing London with England & Wales excluding London and England & Wales as a whole (including London) is provided in the table below:

  Total Births - UK Mothers


  Total Births - Overseas Mothers


  Pre-2004 EU countries


  Post-2004 EU accession countries


  Rest of Europe


  Asia


  Africa


  Rest of the world




  Year


  Region


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %


  No.


  %






  2024


  London


  42,669


  40%


  63,460


  60%


  6,541


  6%


  7,294


  7%


  5,585


  5%


  27,269


  26%


  10,696


  10%


  6,075


  6%




  2024


  Rest of England & Wales


  350,240


  72%


  138,138


  28%


  10,522


  2%


  23,104


  5%


  6,787


  1%


  60,017


  12%


  30,432


  6%


  7,276


  1%




  2024


  England & Wales


  392,909


  66%


  201,598


  34%


  17,063

Births that occurred by hospital name. Birth events of 5 or more per hospital location are displayed

About this dataset

This dataset contains US baby names from the Social Security Administration dating back to 1879. With over 150 years of data, this is one of the most comprehensive datasets on baby names in the US. The data includes the name, year of birth, sex, and number of babies with that name for each year. This dataset is a great resource for anyone interested in studying baby naming trends over time

How to use the dataset

How to use the US Baby Names by Year of Birth dataset:

This dataset is a compilation of over 140 years of data from the Social Security Administration. It includes data on baby names, year of birth, and sex. There are also columns for the number of babies with that name born in that year.

This dataset can be used to track changes in baby naming trends over time, or to study how popular names have changed in popularity. It can also be used to study how naming trends differ between sexes, or between different years

Research Ideas

This dataset could be used for a number of things, including: 1. Determining baby name trends over time 2. Finding out what the most popular baby names are in the US 3. Analyzing how baby name popularity has changed over the years

Columns

• index: the index of the dataframe
• YearOfBirth: the year in which the baby was born
• Name: the name of the baby
• Sex: the sex of the baby
• Number: the number of babies with that name and sex

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit @nickgott, @rflprr and the Social Security Administration via Data.gov

Data Source

Dataset from Singapore Department of Statistics. For more information, visit https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6150f21b0892b3fdde546d2a1af2af82/view

Live births in the UK by area of usual residence of mother. The tables contain summary data for local authorities and local health boards (within Wales) including figures by age of mother.

Number and percentage of live births, by age group of mother, 1991 to most recent year.

Note: This dataset is historical only and there are not corresponding datasets for more recent time periods. For that more-recent information, please visit the Chicago Health Atlas at https://chicagohealthatlas.org. This dataset contains the annual number of low birth weight births and the percent of total births these low birth weight births represent, with corresponding 95% confidence intervals, by Chicago community area, for the years 1999 – 2009. See full description at http://bit.ly/KcNNzH

Yearly registered births – breakdown by Month

Births by Maternal Demographic Characteristics - 5-Year Aggregations reports the 5-year average number and percentage of births in certain categories by maternal demographic characteristics (mother's age, race, and ethnicity). Frequency Annual Full Description This dataset provides select birth outcomes (birthweight, gestational age) for Connecticut resident births along with select demographic characteristics of the mother (mother's age, race, and ethnicity). Low birth weight is less than 2500 grams, or about 5.5 pounds. Very low birth weight is less than 1500 grams, or about 3.3 pounds. A birth is premature if it occurs before the gestational age of 37 completed weeks. Department of Public Health collects and publishes annual vital statistics reports (www.ct.gov/dph/RegistrationReport) and CTdata.org carries annual data, 3-year and 5-year averages. More dimensions can be found in the raw data such as birth pluralities.

This is a publication on maternity activity in English NHS hospitals. This report examines data relating to delivery and birth episodes in 2021-22, and the booking appointments for these deliveries. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2022. Data is included from both the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data warehouse and the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'delivery episodes'. The MSDS collects records of each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, and includes information not recorded in HES. The MSDS is a maturing, national-level dataset. In April 2019 the MSDS transitioned to a new version of the dataset. This version, MSDS v2.0, is an update that introduced a new structure and content - including clinical terminology, in order to meet current clinical practice and incorporate new requirements. It is designed to meet requirements that resulted from the National Maternity Review, which led to the publication of the Better Births report in February 2016. This is the third publication of data from MSDS v2.0 and data from 2019-20 onwards is not directly comparable to data from previous years. This publication shows the number of HES delivery episodes during the period, with a number of breakdowns including by method of onset of labour, delivery method and place of delivery. It also shows the number of MSDS deliveries recorded during the period, with breakdowns including the baby's first feed type, birthweight, place of birth, and breastfeeding activity; and the mothers' ethnicity and age at booking. There is also data available in a separate file on breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks. The count of Total Babies includes both live and still births, and previous changes to how Total Babies and Total Deliveries were calculated means that comparisons between 2019-20 MSDS data and later years should be made with care. The MethodfDelivery measure counting babies has been replaced by the DeliveryMethodBabyGroup measure which counts deliveries, and the smoking at booking and folic acid status measures have been renamed - these changes have been made to better align this annual publication with the Maternity Services Monthly Statistics publication. Information on how all measures are constructed can be found in the HES Metadata and MSDS Metadata files provided below. In this publication we have also included an interactive Power BI dashboard to enable users to explore key NHS Maternity Statistics measures. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care. This report will also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England. Any feedback on this publication or dashboard can be provided to enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, under the subject “NHS Maternity Statistics”.

The low birth-weight rate measures the percentage of live births with weights below 2500 grams. A low birth-weight can affect health outcomes later in life, and is an illustrative indicator for the overall health of the measured population.

The low birth-weight rate in Champaign County has been above 8 percent since 2011, the earliest Reporting Year available in the dataset. This is close to the statewide rate, which returned to 8.4 percent from Reporting Year 2021 through present after a slight decrease in recent years. The lowest county low birth-weight rate in the state is 5.6 percent (Carroll County in the northwest corner of the state), while the highest county low birth-weight rate in the state is 11.9 percent (Pulaski County in southernmost Illinois).

This data was sourced from the University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute's and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s County Health Rankings & Roadmaps. Each year’s County Health Rankings uses data from years prior. Therefore, the 2023 County Health Rankings (“Reporting Year” in the table) uses data from 2014-2020 (“Data Years” in the table).

Source: University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2023.