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Query Builder for New Jersey Infant Death Data: 2000-2020 - Count

About this dataset

The data in this module come from death certificates that have been matched to the infant's birth certificate. Year, infant age, cause of death, and geographic area of residence are from the death certificate. All other variables are from the matched birth certificate for the infant.

How to build your query

The most current data year and all deaths are pre-selected in the steps below. If you do not want to choose different years or filter your results by any characteristics or cause of death, skip to the last STEP bar and select how you would like to display the results (i.e., which rows and columns you want in your data table) then click SUBMIT at the bottom left of the query builder steps to get your query result.

If you want to only see data for certain years, characteristics, or causes of death, follow the numbered steps below to narrow your query. When you are done filtering your query, open the last STEP bar to select which rows and columns you want in your data table. After that, click SUBMIT at the bottom left of the query builder steps to get your query result.

  • Select year grouping and year(s). Default is single years, most recent year.

  • Selecting years

    Year is year of death.

    Use Ctrl to make multiple selections or drag the mouse to select consecutive years.

  • Choose age groups below or enter custom age groups. Mother's age is at time of delivery, not conception.

  • How to Specify Age Groups

    Enter whole numbers from 0 to 99.

    Use a hyphen to indicate a range of ages (e.g., "5-8" will include ages 5, 6, 7, and 8).

    You may use greater than (>) or less than (<) symbols.

    You may use a plus sign (+) to indicate all ages equal to or greater than (e.g.,"35+" yields all those aged 35 and over).

    Enter "unknown" to include those with unreported age in total results.











  • Race and Ethnicity

    Race and Hispanic ethnicity are collected separately on vital event certificates.

    Therefore each record has both a race (White, Black, etc.) and an ethnicity (Hispanic or non-Hispanic) for the mother and data for race and ethnicity may be presented separately (Race or Hispanic origin) or combined (Race/Ethnicity).
    Choose race, ethnicity, or race/ethnicity combined. Click the yellow ? for more information.

  • Mother's Race

    Race groups include both Hispanics and non-Hispanics.

  • Mother's Ethnicity

    Ethnicity groups include persons of any race.

  • Choose other characteristics of the mother to include in your analysis. The default is all mothers.

  • Mother's Birthplace

    NCHS uses "United States" to mean the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
    U.S. Territories are Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa*, and Northern Marianas*. (*Included in "Remainder of World" prior to 2014.)
    To see results for the 50 states, DC, and territories combined, select both "U.S. States and D.C." and "U.S. Territories."
    In NJ, when maternal nativity = U.S. Territories, approximately 97% are from Puerto Rico.

  • Parity

    Parity is the number of previous live-born children a woman has delivered. Select 0 if looking for information about the first child born to a woman.

  • Alcohol Use

    Alcohol use during pregnancy is not collected on the new electronic birth registration system that was installed in New Jersey hospitals beginning in July, 2014, therefore all maternal alcohol use data after 2013 is shown as Unknown.

  • Drug Use

    Reporting of drug use during pregnancy was incomplete before 1996 and after 2013, therefore all maternal drug use data for 1990-1995 and after 2013 are shown as Unknown.

  • Choose infant characteristics to include in the analysis. The default is all infants.

  • Birth Weight

    Very Low Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was less than 1500 grams (about 3.3 lbs.)

    Low Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was less than 2500 grams (about 5.5 lbs.)

    Normal Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was at least 2500 grams but less than 4,000 grams

    High Birth Weight: Live-born infants whose birth weight was greater than 4,000 grams (about 8.8 lbs.)

  • Gestational Age

    Gestational Age is the period of time a baby is carried in the uterus or the duration of the pregnancy, measured from the first day of the last menstrual period. Full-term gestation is between 37 and 42 weeks.

  • Size for Gestational Age

    Small for gestational age (SGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is smaller than usual for the number of weeks of pregnancy. SGA babies usually have birthweights below the 10th percentile for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh less than 90 percent of all other babies of the same gestational age.

    Large for gestational age (LGA) is a term used to describe a baby who is larger than usual for the number of weeks of pregnancy. LGA babies usually have birthweights above the 90th percentile for babies of the same gestational age. This means that they weigh more than 90 percent of all other babies of the same gestational age.

  • Choose health services utilization characteristics to include in your analysis. The default is all characteristics.

  • Prenatal Care Recommendations

    It is recommended that pregnant women begin prenatal care during their first three months (first trimester) of pregnancy.

  • Number of Prenatal Care Visits

    ACOG recommends the following prenatal care visit schedule:

    1 visit per month (every 4 weeks) until week 28

    2 visits per month (every 2 to 3 weeks) from weeks 28 to 36

    1 visit per week from week 36 until birth

    Certain medical conditions in pregnancy may necessitate more visits.

  • Cause of Death

    There are a variety of predefined causes of death to choose from. If causes on the predefined lists do not meet your needs, you may enter your own ICD-10 codes by selecting "User-defined causes."
    Choose a grouping scheme below. Default is 7 major causes of death. Hover over blue ? bubbles or click on yellow ? for more information.

  • NCHS Leading Causes of Death

    The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has developed a uniform procedure for ranking causes of death. Using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding structure, 130 selected causes of infant death were consolidated from the entire ICD-10 coding structure. Of these 130 causes, a subset of 71 rankable causes were selected to denote the most frequently occurring causes of death among causes eligible for ranking. Use the help page link to the right with a yellow "?" for a listing.

  • How to Specify ICD-10 Codes

    Enter the codes with or without the decimal point. Use a hyphen to indicate a range of codes. Use a space or comma between codes.

    Note that, for example, P23 includes all codes under P23 (congenital pneumonia), from P23.0 (Congenital pneumonia due to viral agent) to P23.9 (Congenital pneumonia, unspecified). Because the codes are alpha-numeric and not simply numeric, deaths coded simply P23_ [underscore added to show blank space] will not be included in a range from P23.0-P23.9 since P23_ is less than P23.0. P23-P24 would include all codes under P23 and P24.











  • Selecting Geography

    Select the geographic areas you want to include.
    Choose the geographic areas to include in your analysis. The default is all New Jersey residents.

Primary group by field

Defines the data's primary grouping dimension. The primary grouping is required and also controls the ordering of the result's data rows. In MS-Excel and other graphing packages this is typically referred to as the the "dataset's category". If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this value/dimension is associated with table's "row" values. Others will refer to this value as the first "cross by" or the first dimension.

Optional secondary group by field

Defines the 2nd field (or dimension) to be used to group and aggregate values by. MS-Excel chart users will commonly refer to this as the dataset's "series" field. If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this field is associated with data table's value columns. Series group bys are optional. Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified.

Optional chart graph

Defines the optional chart graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified. All other charts will only work with a maximum of 2 group bys e.g. if the fixed group by exists then the series group by can NOT be used with charting or maps.
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Content updated: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:01 EST