U.S. Births: US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv

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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

Data license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette

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Link rowid ▼ year month date_of_month day_of_week births
1 1 2000 1 1 6 9083
2 2 2000 1 2 7 8006
3 3 2000 1 3 1 11363
4 4 2000 1 4 2 13032
5 5 2000 1 5 3 12558
6 6 2000 1 6 4 12466
7 7 2000 1 7 5 12516
8 8 2000 1 8 6 8934
9 9 2000 1 9 7 7949
10 10 2000 1 10 1 11668
11 11 2000 1 11 2 12611
12 12 2000 1 12 3 12398
13 13 2000 1 13 4 11815
14 14 2000 1 14 5 12180
15 15 2000 1 15 6 8525
16 16 2000 1 16 7 7657
17 17 2000 1 17 1 10824
18 18 2000 1 18 2 12350
19 19 2000 1 19 3 12405
20 20 2000 1 20 4 12506
21 21 2000 1 21 5 11953
22 22 2000 1 22 6 8855
23 23 2000 1 23 7 7856
24 24 2000 1 24 1 11449
25 25 2000 1 25 2 12593
26 26 2000 1 26 3 12143
27 27 2000 1 27 4 12408
28 28 2000 1 28 5 11934
29 29 2000 1 29 6 8805
30 30 2000 1 30 7 7764
31 31 2000 1 31 1 11133
32 32 2000 2 1 2 12614
33 33 2000 2 2 3 12465
34 34 2000 2 3 4 12062
35 35 2000 2 4 5 12035
36 36 2000 2 5 6 8624
37 37 2000 2 6 7 7862
38 38 2000 2 7 1 11630
39 39 2000 2 8 2 12879
40 40 2000 2 9 3 12315
41 41 2000 2 10 4 12612
42 42 2000 2 11 5 12411
43 43 2000 2 12 6 8836
44 44 2000 2 13 7 7933
45 45 2000 2 14 1 12152
46 46 2000 2 15 2 13017
47 47 2000 2 16 3 12504
48 48 2000 2 17 4 12520
49 49 2000 2 18 5 12406
50 50 2000 2 19 6 8861
51 51 2000 2 20 7 7943
52 52 2000 2 21 1 10610
53 53 2000 2 22 2 12664
54 54 2000 2 23 3 12252
55 55 2000 2 24 4 12423
56 56 2000 2 25 5 12204
57 57 2000 2 26 6 9026
58 58 2000 2 27 7 7836
59 59 2000 2 28 1 11455
60 60 2000 2 29 2 11895
61 61 2000 3 1 3 12672
62 62 2000 3 2 4 12524
63 63 2000 3 3 5 12390
64 64 2000 3 4 6 9054
65 65 2000 3 5 7 7734
66 66 2000 3 6 1 11375
67 67 2000 3 7 2 12420
68 68 2000 3 8 3 12338
69 69 2000 3 9 4 12615
70 70 2000 3 10 5 12152
71 71 2000 3 11 6 8822
72 72 2000 3 12 7 7937
73 73 2000 3 13 1 11157
74 74 2000 3 14 2 12773
75 75 2000 3 15 3 12428
76 76 2000 3 16 4 12431
77 77 2000 3 17 5 12385
78 78 2000 3 18 6 8677
79 79 2000 3 19 7 7782
80 80 2000 3 20 1 11595
81 81 2000 3 21 2 12689
82 82 2000 3 22 3 12272
83 83 2000 3 23 4 12396
84 84 2000 3 24 5 12327
85 85 2000 3 25 6 9155
86 86 2000 3 26 7 7815
87 87 2000 3 27 1 11291
88 88 2000 3 28 2 12650
89 89 2000 3 29 3 12077
90 90 2000 3 30 4 12071
91 91 2000 3 31 5 11820
92 92 2000 4 1 6 8388
93 93 2000 4 2 7 7540
94 94 2000 4 3 1 11397
95 95 2000 4 4 2 12797
96 96 2000 4 5 3 12209
97 97 2000 4 6 4 12192
98 98 2000 4 7 5 12213
99 99 2000 4 8 6 8743
100 100 2000 4 9 7 7759

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CREATE TABLE "births/US_births_2000-2014_SSA" (
"year" INTEGER,
  "month" INTEGER,
  "date_of_month" INTEGER,
  "day_of_week" INTEGER,
  "births" INTEGER
);