CDC WONDER: Mortality - Infant Deaths

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<p>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.</p>

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bureauCode	[ "009:20" ]
dataQuality	true
describedBy	http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/lbd.html
identifier	5f2e0ec4-4aa6-4b00-bc1a-9fa72bbff80c
issued	2012-05-30
landingPage	https://healthdata.gov/dataset/cdc-wonder-mortality-infant-deaths
programCode	[ "009:015" ]
temporal	1995-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2005-12-31T00:00:00-05:00
theme	[ "[ 'Health' ]" ]

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