stillbirth {season}R Documentation

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

Source

From Queensland Health (http://www.health.qld.gov.au/).

Examples

data(stillbirth)
table(stillbirth$month,stillbirth$stillborn)

[Package season version 0.2-3 Index]