Chicago Community Area Births and Rates, 1999–2009

Annual births and crude birth rates for Chicago's community areas over an 11-year period. The dataset includes 95% confidence intervals for each birth rate estimate, providing a measure of statistical reliability. Data.cityofchicago.org published this historical dataset, which was last updated in February 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal birth rate trends using columns like Birth Rate 1999, Birth Rate 2005, and Birth Rate 2009.
• Comparing birth counts across community areas and years using columns such as Births 2000, Births 2006, and Births 2009.
• Assessing statistical uncertainty in birth rate estimates by examining the provided lower and upper confidence interval columns (e.g., Birth Rate 2002 Lower CI, Birth Rate 2008 Upper CI).

Strengths

• Includes 95% confidence intervals for birth rates, allowing for uncertainty analysis.
• Covers an 11-year time range (1999–2009) for longitudinal study.
• Data is disaggregated by Chicago community area, enabling geographic analysis.

Limitations

• Data is historical only, with the most recent year being 2009.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofchicago.org

Time Range

1999–2009

Freshness

Last updated 2022-02-03 23:28:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chicago, Illinois, USA (by community area)