U.S. Fertility Clinic Assisted Reproductive Technology Summary

2021 data from the National ART Surveillance System provides a snapshot of clinic services, patient characteristics, and success rates across U.S. fertility clinics. The dataset includes clinic profiles, patient cycle counts, and treatment outcomes. It is published by data.cdc.gov.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic patterns in ART services using States, Counties, and City columns.
• Compare clinic-level Cycle_Count and Data_Value metrics across different Breakout_Categories like patient age or diagnosis.
• Profile clinic characteristics and services by joining datasets on the ClinicId key with other NASS datasets.
• Investigate relationships between patient demographics (Breakout_Category) and treatment outcomes (Data_Value).

Strengths

• Data covers fertility clinics across all U.S. states as indicated by the States column.
• Can be linked to three other related NASS datasets via the ClinicId key for deeper analysis.

Limitations

• Specific row count and sample size are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Success rates (Data_Value) are not directly comparable across clinics due to differences in patient populations and treatment methods as noted in the description.

Provenance

Source

data.cdc.gov / National ART Surveillance System (NASS)

Collection Method

Collected from fertility clinics across the U.S. as part of national surveillance.

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Data were updated on September 11, 2024.

Geography

United States