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This table contains data behind the story Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th.

There are two files:

US_births_1994-2003_CDC_NCHS.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 1994 to 2003, as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.

Both files have the following structure:

Header Definition
year Year
month Month
date_of_month Day number of the month
day_of_week Day of week, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday
births Number of births

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Link rowid ▼ year month date_of_month day_of_week births
1 1 1994 1 1 6 8096
2 2 1994 1 2 7 7772
3 3 1994 1 3 1 10142
4 4 1994 1 4 2 11248
5 5 1994 1 5 3 11053
6 6 1994 1 6 4 11406
7 7 1994 1 7 5 11251
8 8 1994 1 8 6 8653
9 9 1994 1 9 7 7910
10 10 1994 1 10 1 10498
11 11 1994 1 11 2 11706
12 12 1994 1 12 3 11567
13 13 1994 1 13 4 11212
14 14 1994 1 14 5 11570
15 15 1994 1 15 6 8660
16 16 1994 1 16 7 8123
17 17 1994 1 17 1 10567
18 18 1994 1 18 2 11541
19 19 1994 1 19 3 11257
20 20 1994 1 20 4 11682
21 21 1994 1 21 5 11811
22 22 1994 1 22 6 8833
23 23 1994 1 23 7 8310
24 24 1994 1 24 1 11125
25 25 1994 1 25 2 11981
26 26 1994 1 26 3 11514
27 27 1994 1 27 4 11702
28 28 1994 1 28 5 11666
29 29 1994 1 29 6 8988
30 30 1994 1 30 7 8096
31 31 1994 1 31 1 10765
32 32 1994 2 1 2 11755
33 33 1994 2 2 3 11483
34 34 1994 2 3 4 11523
35 35 1994 2 4 5 11677
36 36 1994 2 5 6 8991
37 37 1994 2 6 7 8309
38 38 1994 2 7 1 10984
39 39 1994 2 8 2 12152
40 40 1994 2 9 3 11515
41 41 1994 2 10 4 11623
42 42 1994 2 11 5 11517
43 43 1994 2 12 6 8945
44 44 1994 2 13 7 8171
45 45 1994 2 14 1 11551
46 46 1994 2 15 2 12164
47 47 1994 2 16 3 12009
48 48 1994 2 17 4 11674
49 49 1994 2 18 5 11887
50 50 1994 2 19 6 8946
51 51 1994 2 20 7 8402
52 52 1994 2 21 1 10617
53 53 1994 2 22 2 11810
54 54 1994 2 23 3 11776
55 55 1994 2 24 4 11667
56 56 1994 2 25 5 11905
57 57 1994 2 26 6 8988
58 58 1994 2 27 7 8195
59 59 1994 2 28 1 11091
60 60 1994 3 1 2 12127
61 61 1994 3 2 3 11735
62 62 1994 3 3 4 11984
63 63 1994 3 4 5 12066
64 64 1994 3 5 6 9215
65 65 1994 3 6 7 8389
66 66 1994 3 7 1 10996
67 67 1994 3 8 2 12275
68 68 1994 3 9 3 11780
69 69 1994 3 10 4 11792
70 70 1994 3 11 5 11939
71 71 1994 3 12 6 9087
72 72 1994 3 13 7 8248
73 73 1994 3 14 1 11092
74 74 1994 3 15 2 12298
75 75 1994 3 16 3 11865
76 76 1994 3 17 4 11976
77 77 1994 3 18 5 11799
78 78 1994 3 19 6 8944
79 79 1994 3 20 7 8243
80 80 1994 3 21 1 11140
81 81 1994 3 22 2 11964
82 82 1994 3 23 3 11637
83 83 1994 3 24 4 11904
84 84 1994 3 25 5 11568
85 85 1994 3 26 6 8957
86 86 1994 3 27 7 8189
87 87 1994 3 28 1 11051
88 88 1994 3 29 2 12154
89 89 1994 3 30 3 11540
90 90 1994 3 31 4 11782
91 91 1994 4 1 5 10630
92 92 1994 4 2 6 8782
93 93 1994 4 3 7 7530
94 94 1994 4 4 1 10909
95 95 1994 4 5 2 11876
96 96 1994 4 6 3 11811
97 97 1994 4 7 4 11718
98 98 1994 4 8 5 11532
99 99 1994 4 9 6 8791
100 100 1994 4 10 7 8183

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CREATE TABLE "births/US_births_1994-2003_CDC_NCHS" (
"year" INTEGER,
  "month" INTEGER,
  "date_of_month" INTEGER,
  "day_of_week" INTEGER,
  "births" INTEGER
);
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