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Select year grouping and year(s). Default is single years, most recent year.
Selecting years
Year is year of death.
Use Ctrl to make multiple selections or drag the mouse to select consecutive years.
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Choose mother's age at time of delivery. Default is all ages.
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- Choose race, ethnicity, or race/ethnicity combined. Click the globe link for more information.
Race and Ethnicity
Race and Hispanic ethnicity are collected separately on vital event certificates.
Therefore each record has both a race (White, Black, etc.) and an ethnicity (Hispanic or non-Hispanic) for the mother and data for race and ethnicity may be presented separately (Race or Hispanic origin) or combined (Race/Ethnicity).
Mother's Race
Race groups include both Hispanics and non-Hispanics.
Mother's Ethnicity
Ethnicity groups include persons of any race.
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Choose other characteristics of the mother to include in your analysis. The default is all mothers.
Mother's Birthplace
NCHS uses "United States" to mean the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.U.S. Territories are Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa*, and Northern Marianas*. (*Included in "Remainder of World" prior to 2014.)To see results for the 50 states, DC, and territories combined, select both "U.S. States and D.C." and "U.S. Territories."In NJ, when maternal nativity = U.S. Territories, approximately 97% are from Puerto Rico.
Parity
Parity is the number of previous live-born children a woman has delivered. Select 0 if looking for information about the first child born to a woman.
Alcohol Use
Alcohol use during pregnancy is not collected on the new electronic birth registration system that was installed in New Jersey hospitals beginning in July, 2014, therefore all maternal alcohol use data after 2013 is shown as Unknown.
Drug Use
Reporting of drug use during pregnancy was incomplete before 1996 and after 2013, therefore all maternal drug use data for 1990-1995 and after 2013 are shown as Unknown.
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Choose infant characteristics to include in the analysis. The default is all infants.
Birth Weight
Very Low Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was less than 1500 grams (about 3.3 lbs.)
Low Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was less than 2500 grams (about 5.5 lbs.)
Normal Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was at least 2500 grams but less than 4,000 grams
High Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was greater than 4,000 grams (about 8.8 lbs.)
Gestational Age
Gestational Age is the period of time a baby is carried in the uterus or the duration of the pregnancy, measured from the first day of the last menstrual period. Full-term gestation is between 37 and 42 weeks.
Size for Gestational Age
Small for gestational age (SGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is smaller than usual for the number of weeks of pregnancy. SGA babies usually have birthweights below the 10th percentile for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh less than 90 percent of all other babies of the same gestational age.
Large for gestational age (LGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is larger than usual for the number of weeks of pregnancy. LGA babies usually have birthweights above the 90th percentile for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh more than 90 percent of all other babies of the same gestational age.
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Choose health services utilization characteristics to include in your analysis. The default is all characteristics.
Prenatal Care Recommendations
It is recommended that pregnant women begin prenatal care during their first three months (first trimester) of pregnancy.
Number of Prenatal Care Visits
ACOG recommends the following prenatal care visit schedule:
1 visit per month (every 4 weeks) until week 28
2 visits per month (every 2 to 3 weeks) from weeks 28 to 36
1 visit per week from week 36 until birth
Certain medical conditions in pregnancy may necessitate more visits.
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- Choose a grouping scheme below. Default is all causes of death. Hover over blue ? bubbles or click globe links for more information.
Cause of Death
There are a variety of predefined causes of death to choose from. If causes on the predefined lists do not meet your needs, you may enter your own ICD-10 codes by selecting "User-defined causes."
NCHS Leading Causes of Death
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has developed a uniform procedure for ranking causes of death. Using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding structure, 130 selected causes of infant death were consolidated from the entire ICD-10 coding structure. Of these 130 causes, a subset of 71 rankable causes were selected to denote the most frequently occurring causes of death among causes eligible for ranking. Use the globe link to the right for a listing.
How to Specify ICD-10 Codes
Enter the codes with or without the decimal point. Use a hyphen to indicate a range of codes. Use a space or comma between codes.
Note that, for example, P23 includes all codes under P23 (congenital pneumonia), from P23.0 (Congenital pneumonia due to viral agent) to P23.9 (Congenital pneumonia, unspecified). Because the codes are alpha-numeric and not simply numeric, deaths coded simply P23_ [underscore added to show blank space] will not be included in a range from P23.0-P23.9 since P23_ is less than P23.0. P23-P24 would include all codes under P23 and P24.
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- Choose the geographic areas to include in your analysis. The default is all New Jersey residents.
Selecting Geography
Select the geographic areas you want to include.
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Primary group by fieldDefines the data's primary grouping dimension. The primary grouping is required and also controls theordering of the result's data rows. In MS-Excel and other graphing packages this is typically referred to as the the "dataset's category". If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this value/dimension is associated with table's "row" values. Others will refer to thisvalue as the first "cross by" or the first dimension. | |
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Optional secondary group by fieldDefines the 2nd field (or dimension) to be used to group and aggregate values by. MS-Excel chart users will commonly refer to this as the dataset's "series" field. If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this field is associated with data table's value columns.Series group bys are optional. Maps and some charts,like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed tohandle datasets that have more than one group by e.g.they only work with the primary category type group by being specified. | |
Optional chart graphDefines the optional chart graphic to display. NOTE: Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified. Allother charts will only work with a maximum of 2 groupbys e.g. if the fixed group by exists then the seriesgroup by can NOT be used with charting or maps. | |
Optional Map VisualizationDefines the optional map graphic to display. NOTE: Maps are only available when the category is set to a geographical area and does not have a seriesdefined. |
