ARCHIVED - Preterm Births

For current version see: https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/maternal_child_family_health_services/MCFHSstatistics.html

Basic Metadata

Note: The Preterm percentage is the proportion of live births that were preterm divided by the number of live births with known length of gestation, by geography.

Preterm birth refers to birth prior to 37 completed weeks of gestation.

**Blank Cells: Percentages not calculated for fewer than 5 events. Percentages not calculated in cases where zip code is unknown.

***API: Asian/Pacific Islander.

***AIAN: American Indian/Alaska Native.

Sources: State of California, Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics and Informatics, Birth Statistical Master Files and Birth Public Use Files. County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, Maternal, Child and Family Health Services (MCFHS).

Prepared by: County of San Diego, Health & Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, Community Health Statistics Unit, 2019.

Data Guide, Dictionary, and Codebook:

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/hhsa/programs/phs/CHS/Community%20Profiles/Public%20Health%20Services%20Codebook_Data%20Guide_Metadata_10.2.19.xlsx

Interpretation: "3% of births in Geography X were preterm births".

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 \"internal-sandiegocounty-data-socrata/archived-preterm-births-6qjp-u74r\".\"archived_preterm_births\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.