ARCHIVED - Very Low Birth Weight

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

Basic Metadata

Note: Low Birth Weight Percentage is the number of deliveries with very low birth weight divided by the total number of live births, by geography. Births with unknown birth weight are not included.

Very Low birth weight (VLBW) is a term used to describe babies who are born weighing less than 1,500 g (approximately 3 lbs., 5 oz.). In contrast, the average newborn weighs about 8 pounds.

**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, 2018.

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_10.18.xlsx

Interpretation: "3% of live births in Geography X were very low birth weight".

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-very-low-birth-weight-srw2-imkc\".\"archived_very_low_birth_weight\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.