Massachusetts Department of Health Birth Data

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Originator: Harvard Graduate School of Design
Publication_Date: 1998
Title: Massachusetts Department of Health Birth Data
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Publication_Place: Cambridge
Publisher: State of Massachusetts
Description:
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Note: To protect confidentiality, The Massachusetts Department of Health requires that any spreadsheet cell that contains less than 5 births be suppressed. To meet this requirement for each individual year means that a substantial amount of information be suppressed. To overcome this potential loss of information, we altered the data provided in release 2 in two ways. First, we combined years 1992 and 1993 together. Combining 2 years doubled the number of cases and therefore reduced the likelihood that cells or categories would have to be suppressed. Second, for instances where cells contained less than 5 cases, we substituted a value of 2 instead of completely suppressing the cell. The value two was chosen since it is close to the mean. Although this results in only estimated numbers of births, it still allows people to get a basic idea of birth information in their neighborhoods.

- The Birth Data dataset is derived from the information collected by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to complete a birth certificate. A Massachusetts birth certificate is recorded for every child born to a mother living in Massachusetts. This dataset includes information relating only to births in Boston. - The data to complete the birth certificate is provided by hospital personnel and the child's parents. - Race and ethnicity are generally a matter of self-identification, that is, individuals choose the racial or ethnic group with which they identify. - At times, a parent may not be able to provide the information themselves; in that case the hospital employee working with the family may make a determination based on their best estimate or guess. - Census Tracts containing five or fewer births are reported as 2 in this dataset. - This dataset covers 20047 births of babies by mothers living in Boston during 1990-1991. - Level of aggregation: 1970 Census Tracts all other files conform to the 1990 Census Tracts.

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Address: 48 Quincy Street
City: Cambridge
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02138
Country: U.S.A.
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Originator: Boston Foundation
Publication_Date: 1993
Title: Boston Children and Families Database
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Publication_Place: Boston, Masssachusetts
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Datasets in the children and families database were collected from many different sources. Each source was normalized by census tract, blockgroup or zipcode by some folks at Northeastern University. For details on this process and on the Children and Families Database, consult the full documentation provided in bfppp3.doc which should be in the same directory as the tables.
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