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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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365 rows where year = 2001

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Link rowid ▼ year month date_of_month day_of_week births
2558 2558 2001 1 1 1 7437
2559 2559 2001 1 2 2 10346
2560 2560 2001 1 3 3 12113
2561 2561 2001 1 4 4 12429
2562 2562 2001 1 5 5 12427
2563 2563 2001 1 6 6 9019
2564 2564 2001 1 7 7 7747
2565 2565 2001 1 8 1 11239
2566 2566 2001 1 9 2 12105
2567 2567 2001 1 10 3 12160
2568 2568 2001 1 11 4 12155
2569 2569 2001 1 12 5 12464
2570 2570 2001 1 13 6 8647
2571 2571 2001 1 14 7 7674
2572 2572 2001 1 15 1 10720
2573 2573 2001 1 16 2 12041
2574 2574 2001 1 17 3 12046
2575 2575 2001 1 18 4 12362
2576 2576 2001 1 19 5 12044
2577 2577 2001 1 20 6 8602
2578 2578 2001 1 21 7 7668
2579 2579 2001 1 22 1 11219
2580 2580 2001 1 23 2 12176
2581 2581 2001 1 24 3 12046
2582 2582 2001 1 25 4 12316
2583 2583 2001 1 26 5 11993
2584 2584 2001 1 27 6 8640
2585 2585 2001 1 28 7 7641
2586 2586 2001 1 29 1 11269
2587 2587 2001 1 30 2 12237
2588 2588 2001 1 31 3 12216
2589 2589 2001 2 1 4 12186
2590 2590 2001 2 2 5 12188
2591 2591 2001 2 3 6 8476
2592 2592 2001 2 4 7 7608
2593 2593 2001 2 5 1 11546
2594 2594 2001 2 6 2 12247
2595 2595 2001 2 7 3 12091
2596 2596 2001 2 8 4 12147
2597 2597 2001 2 9 5 12086
2598 2598 2001 2 10 6 8637
2599 2599 2001 2 11 7 7437
2600 2600 2001 2 12 1 11413
2601 2601 2001 2 13 2 12012
2602 2602 2001 2 14 3 12890
2603 2603 2001 2 15 4 12407
2604 2604 2001 2 16 5 12119
2605 2605 2001 2 17 6 8474
2606 2606 2001 2 18 7 7422
2607 2607 2001 2 19 1 10356
2608 2608 2001 2 20 2 12113
2609 2609 2001 2 21 3 12206
2610 2610 2001 2 22 4 12234
2611 2611 2001 2 23 5 12040
2612 2612 2001 2 24 6 8491
2613 2613 2001 2 25 7 7646
2614 2614 2001 2 26 1 11073
2615 2615 2001 2 27 2 12068
2616 2616 2001 2 28 3 11921
2617 2617 2001 3 1 4 12263
2618 2618 2001 3 2 5 12128
2619 2619 2001 3 3 6 8761
2620 2620 2001 3 4 7 7675
2621 2621 2001 3 5 1 11182
2622 2622 2001 3 6 2 12052
2623 2623 2001 3 7 3 12094
2624 2624 2001 3 8 4 12194
2625 2625 2001 3 9 5 12242
2626 2626 2001 3 10 6 8679
2627 2627 2001 3 11 7 7564
2628 2628 2001 3 12 1 11366
2629 2629 2001 3 13 2 12273
2630 2630 2001 3 14 3 12367
2631 2631 2001 3 15 4 12286
2632 2632 2001 3 16 5 12248
2633 2633 2001 3 17 6 8850
2634 2634 2001 3 18 7 7399
2635 2635 2001 3 19 1 11099
2636 2636 2001 3 20 2 12574
2637 2637 2001 3 21 3 12394
2638 2638 2001 3 22 4 12262
2639 2639 2001 3 23 5 12213
2640 2640 2001 3 24 6 8683
2641 2641 2001 3 25 7 7689
2642 2642 2001 3 26 1 11042
2643 2643 2001 3 27 2 12328
2644 2644 2001 3 28 3 12175
2645 2645 2001 3 29 4 12166
2646 2646 2001 3 30 5 11855
2647 2647 2001 3 31 6 8581
2648 2648 2001 4 1 7 7037
2649 2649 2001 4 2 1 11430
2650 2650 2001 4 3 2 12578
2651 2651 2001 4 4 3 12409
2652 2652 2001 4 5 4 12233
2653 2653 2001 4 6 5 12221
2654 2654 2001 4 7 6 8626
2655 2655 2001 4 8 7 7594
2656 2656 2001 4 9 1 11349
2657 2657 2001 4 10 2 12745

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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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