season (version 0.3.12)

stillbirth: Stillbirths in Queensland, 1998--2000

Description

Monthly number of stillbirths in Australia from 1998 to 2000. It is a rare event; there are 352 stillbirths out of 60,110 births. To preserve confidentiality the day of birth has been randomly re-ordered.

Usage

data(stillbirth)

Format

A data frame with 60,110 observations on the following 7 variables.

dob

date of birth (year-month-day)

year

year of birth

month

month of birth

yrmon

a combination of year and month: \(year+(month-1)/12\)

seifa

SEIFA score, an area level measure of socioeconomic status in quintiles

gestation

gestation in weeks

stillborn

stillborn (yes/no); 1=Yes, 0=No

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(stillbirth)
table(stillbirth$month, stillbirth$stillborn)
# }