Percent of infants born at low birth weights, New Jersey, by year: Beginning 2010

Ratio: Percentage of live-born infants delivered with a birth weight of less than 2,500 grams (about 5 lbs, 8 oz).

Definition: Number of live-born infants with a birth weight of less than 2,500 grams born to resident mothers among all live births occurring in the same year.

Data Sources; (1) New Jersey Birth Certificate Database, (2) National Center for Health Statistics

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"healthdata-nj-gov/percent-of-infants-born-at-low-birth-weights-new-wz6u-xiar\".\"percent_of_infants_born_at_low_birth_weights_new\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.