Public Health Birth Data: Birth and Fertility

This dataset includes general fertility and birth data across the County (excluding Chicago). The full data series is as follows: 1) Birth and Fertility 2) Birth Outcomes 3) Characteristics of Delivery 4) Infant Mortality 5) Initiated Breastfeeding 6) Pregnancy Health and Risk Factors 7) Sociodemographic Characteristics of Mother To maintain confidentiality of individual medical records, counts below 5 and rates below 20 are masked with an asterisk (*).

Please review metadata and values carefully and exercise caution when aggregating. Some columns only contain data across certain age groups. Some rows overlap across variables and geographic levels and aggregating without filtering may overestimate the counts.