U.S. county-level data contains counts of vital events from 1915 to 2007. The data includes live births, infant deaths, and all-age deaths, and is compiled by researcher Martha Bailey. When sources allow, data are disaggregated by county of occurrence, county of residence, and race.
Use Cases
- Analyze long-term trends in infant mortality based on infant death counts.
- Model county-level fertility rates based on live birth counts.
- Study geographic disparities in mortality based on all-age death counts.
- Compare vital event rates by race based on disaggregated data mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Covers a 93-year time span from 1915 to 2007.
- Data is disaggregated to the U.S. county level.
- Includes multiple vital event types: live births, infant deaths, and all-age deaths.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Martha Bailey
- Time Range
- 1915-2007
- Geography
- United States, county-level