US Birth Data (1994-2003)

US birth data from 1994 to 2003, as provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/datasets-cdc-nchs-us-births-1994-2003

Usage

var dataset = require( '@stdlib/datasets-cdc-nchs-us-births-1994-2003' );

dataset()

Returns US birth data from 1994 to 2003, as provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

var data = dataset();
// returns [ {...}, ... ]

Each element in the returned database has the following fields:

• year: year.
• month: month, where January is denoted by 1.
• date_of_month: day number of the month.
• day_of_week: day of week, where Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7.
• births: number of births.

Examples

var incrmean = require( '@stdlib/stats-incr-mean' );
var dataset = require( '@stdlib/datasets-cdc-nchs-us-births-1994-2003' );

function mean( a, b ) {
    return ( a + b ) / 2.0;
}

function reldiff( a, b ) {
    return 100.0 * ( (a-b)/a );
}

/*
* GOAL: determine whether people avoid giving birth on the 13th of each month.
*
* NOTE: for a more thorough analysis, we'd account for holidays.
*/

// Retrieve the data:
var data = dataset();

// Initialize arrays for storing births for particular day numbers:
var d6or20 = [ [], [], [], [], [], [], [] ];
var d13 = [ [], [], [], [], [], [], [] ];

// Extract the day number data...
var d;
var w;
var i;
for ( i = 0; i < data.length; i++ ) {
    d = data[ i ].date_of_month;
    w = data[ i ].day_of_week;
    if ( d === 6 ) {
        // Average of days 6 and 20 for the same month:
        d6or20[ w-1 ].push( mean( data[ i ].births, data[ i+14 ].births ) );
    } else if ( d === 13 ) {
        d13[ w-1 ].push( data[ i ].births );
    }
}

// Initialize accumulators for computing the average relative difference...
var means = [];
for ( i = 0; i < 7; i++ ) {
    means.push( incrmean() );
}

// Compute the average relative difference between days 6/20 with day 13...
var l1;
var l2;
var mu;
var j;
for ( i = 0; i < 7; i++ ) {
    l1 = d13[ i ];
    l2 = d6or20[ i ];
    mu = means[ i ];
    for ( j = 0; j < l1.length; j++ ) {
        mu( reldiff( l1[ j ], l2[ j ] ) );
    }
}

// Print the results...
for ( i = 0; i < 7; i++ ) {
    console.log( '%d: %d%', i+1, means[ i ]().toFixed( 3 ) );
}

References

• Bialik, Carl. 2016. "Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th." https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/some-people-are-too-superstitious-to-have-a-baby-on-friday-the-13th/.

License

The data files (databases) are licensed under an Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication & License 1.0 and their contents are licensed under Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal. The software is licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

See Also

• @stdlib/datasets-cdc-nchs-us-births-1994-2003-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.
• @stdlib/datasets-cdc-nchs-us-births-1969-1988: US birth data from 1969 to 1988, as provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
• @stdlib/datasets-ssa-us-births-2000-2014: US birth data from 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.

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