Natality Detail File, 1971: [United States] (ICPSR 3243)

Version Date: Jun 17, 2015

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03243.v2

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Summary

This collection provides information on live births in the United States during calendar year 1971. The natality data in this file are a component of the vital statistics collection effort maintained by the federal government. Variables specify place of birth, race and sex of the child, weight at birth and birth order, number of other children born alive or dead, person in attendance at birth, as well as mother's and father's age, race, and education.

Citation

United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Natality Detail File, 1971: [United States]  . Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-06-17. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03243.v2

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

city

Restrictions

In preparing the data file(s) for this collection, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has removed direct identifiers and characteristics that might lead to identification of data subjects. As an additional precaution NCHS requires, under Section 308(d) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m), that data collected by NCHS not be used for any purpose other than statistical analysis and reporting. NCHS further requires that analysts not use the data to learn the identity of any persons or establishments and that the director of NCHS be notified if any identities are inadvertently discovered. ICPSR member institutions and other users ordering data from ICPSR are expected to adhere to these restrictions.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1971

Date of Collection

1972
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Sample

Fifty percent of birth certificates for calendar year 1971.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Live births in the United States during calendar year 1971.

Unit(s) of Observation

Births

Data Source

Official certificates of live births, and state computer records

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

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Original Release Date

2002-02-11

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Natality Detail File, 1971: [United States] . ICPSR03243-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-06-17. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03243.v2

2015-06-17 SPSS, SAS, and Stata setup files, as well as SPSS and Stata system files, a SAS transport (CPORT) file, a tab-delimited data file, and an R data file have been added to the collection. The codebook was updated.

2002-02-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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