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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 = 2002

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Link rowid ▼ year month date_of_month day_of_week births
2923 2923 2002 1 1 2 7790
2924 2924 2002 1 2 3 10420
2925 2925 2002 1 3 4 12134
2926 2926 2002 1 4 5 12433
2927 2927 2002 1 5 6 8760
2928 2928 2002 1 6 7 7505
2929 2929 2002 1 7 1 11371
2930 2930 2002 1 8 2 12248
2931 2931 2002 1 9 3 11391
2932 2932 2002 1 10 4 12318
2933 2933 2002 1 11 5 12048
2934 2934 2002 1 12 6 8399
2935 2935 2002 1 13 7 7355
2936 2936 2002 1 14 1 11344
2937 2937 2002 1 15 2 12101
2938 2938 2002 1 16 3 11697
2939 2939 2002 1 17 4 12077
2940 2940 2002 1 18 5 12015
2941 2941 2002 1 19 6 8301
2942 2942 2002 1 20 7 7338
2943 2943 2002 1 21 1 10741
2944 2944 2002 1 22 2 12104
2945 2945 2002 1 23 3 11970
2946 2946 2002 1 24 4 12235
2947 2947 2002 1 25 5 11867
2948 2948 2002 1 26 6 8400
2949 2949 2002 1 27 7 7387
2950 2950 2002 1 28 1 11139
2951 2951 2002 1 29 2 11963
2952 2952 2002 1 30 3 11902
2953 2953 2002 1 31 4 11921
2954 2954 2002 2 1 5 11943
2955 2955 2002 2 2 6 8799
2956 2956 2002 2 3 7 7322
2957 2957 2002 2 4 1 11176
2958 2958 2002 2 5 2 12242
2959 2959 2002 2 6 3 11934
2960 2960 2002 2 7 4 12157
2961 2961 2002 2 8 5 12223
2962 2962 2002 2 9 6 8589
2963 2963 2002 2 10 7 7461
2964 2964 2002 2 11 1 11348
2965 2965 2002 2 12 2 12467
2966 2966 2002 2 13 3 11814
2967 2967 2002 2 14 4 12785
2968 2968 2002 2 15 5 12334
2969 2969 2002 2 16 6 8563
2970 2970 2002 2 17 7 7310
2971 2971 2002 2 18 1 10729
2972 2972 2002 2 19 2 12053
2973 2973 2002 2 20 3 12516
2974 2974 2002 2 21 4 12166
2975 2975 2002 2 22 5 12459
2976 2976 2002 2 23 6 8515
2977 2977 2002 2 24 7 7372
2978 2978 2002 2 25 1 11322
2979 2979 2002 2 26 2 12227
2980 2980 2002 2 27 3 12055
2981 2981 2002 2 28 4 12096
2982 2982 2002 3 1 5 12214
2983 2983 2002 3 2 6 8310
2984 2984 2002 3 3 7 7497
2985 2985 2002 3 4 1 11422
2986 2986 2002 3 5 2 12435
2987 2987 2002 3 6 3 12152
2988 2988 2002 3 7 4 12299
2989 2989 2002 3 8 5 12037
2990 2990 2002 3 9 6 8470
2991 2991 2002 3 10 7 7529
2992 2992 2002 3 11 1 10989
2993 2993 2002 3 12 2 12384
2994 2994 2002 3 13 3 11810
2995 2995 2002 3 14 4 12358
2996 2996 2002 3 15 5 12249
2997 2997 2002 3 16 6 8596
2998 2998 2002 3 17 7 7526
2999 2999 2002 3 18 1 11434
3000 3000 2002 3 19 2 12439
3001 3001 2002 3 20 3 12278
3002 3002 2002 3 21 4 12249
3003 3003 2002 3 22 5 12056
3004 3004 2002 3 23 6 8466
3005 3005 2002 3 24 7 7314
3006 3006 2002 3 25 1 11292
3007 3007 2002 3 26 2 12562
3008 3008 2002 3 27 3 12353
3009 3009 2002 3 28 4 12265
3010 3010 2002 3 29 5 11324
3011 3011 2002 3 30 6 8177
3012 3012 2002 3 31 7 7019
3013 3013 2002 4 1 1 10090
3014 3014 2002 4 2 2 12560
3015 3015 2002 4 3 3 12147
3016 3016 2002 4 4 4 12061
3017 3017 2002 4 5 5 11812
3018 3018 2002 4 6 6 8191
3019 3019 2002 4 7 7 7008
3020 3020 2002 4 8 1 11478
3021 3021 2002 4 9 2 12465
3022 3022 2002 4 10 3 12188

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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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