stillbirth {season}

Stillbirths in Queensland, 1998–2000

Description

Monthly number of stillbirths in Australia from 1998 to 2000. It is a rare event; there are 352 stillbirths out of 60,110 births. To preserve confidentiality the day of birth has been randomly re-ordered.

Usage

stillbirth

Format

A data frame with 60,110 observations on the following 7 variables.

dob

date of birth (year-month-day)

year

year of birth

month

month of birth

yrmon

a combination of year and month: year+(month-1)/12

seifa

SEIFA score, an area level measure of socioeconomic status in quintiles

gestation

gestation in weeks

stillborn

stillborn (yes/no); 1=Yes, 0=No

Source

From Queensland Health.

Examples

data(stillbirth)
table(stillbirth$month, stillbirth$stillborn)