Birth Records from Duitama Regional Hospital, Colombia

Consolidado de Nacimientos Hospital Regional Duitama is a dataset of birth records from a regional hospital in Colombia. The dataset includes 24 columns covering demographic, medical, and administrative details for each birth. It is hosted on the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between maternal age (Edad_madre) and birth weight (Peso_gramos) or gestation time (Tiempo_Gestacion).
• Study the distribution of birth delivery types (Tipo_parto) across different maternal education levels (Nivel_educativo_madre).
• Model the correlation between the number of prenatal consultations (Consultas_prenatales) and newborn health indicators like weight (Peso_gramos) and height (Talla_centimetros).
• Explore geographic patterns of births by mapping records using Department (Departamento) and Municipality (Municipio) columns.

Strengths

• Contains 24 distinct features per record, including demographic, clinical, and geographic variables.
• Data is structured in a tabular format available in multiple standard formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).
• Includes specific medical details such as blood group (Grupo_Sanguineo), Rh factor (Factor_RH), and gestation time (Tiempo_Gestacion).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal).

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from Duitama Regional Hospital.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 18:26:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data appears to be from Duitama, Colombia, based on title and columns for Departamento and Municipio.