Percent of infants born at very low birth weight (VLBW), New Jersey, by year: Beginning 2010

Ratio: Number of live-born infants with a birth weight of less than 1,500 grams, among all live-born infants born to resident mothers.

Definition: Percent of live-born infants delivered with a birth weight of less than 1,500 grams (about 3 lbs, 5 oz).

Data Sources:

1) Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health

2) National Vital Statistics Reports, NCHS, CDC

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-very-low-birth-weight-pffn-xzrt\".\"percent_of_infants_born_at_very_low_birth_weight\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.