Infant Mortality

data.cityofnewyork.us | Last Updated 15 Nov 2023

Infant Mortality Rate by Maternal Race/Ethnicity for New York City, 2007-2016 </p> Counts of infant deaths (age <1 year) are based on NYC death certificates. The rate is calculated using the counts of infant deaths as the numerator and the count of live births from NYC birth certificates as the denominator.

Tags: infant, mortality, infant mortality

This dataset has the following 9 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
Yearyearnumber"Year of death for infant/neonatal/post-neonatal mortality rate, infant/neonatal/post-neonatal deaths in New York City. Year of birth for number of live births in New York City. "
Materal Race or Ethnicitymateral_race_or_ethnicitytextRace/Ethnicity of the mother
Infant Mortality Rateinfant_mortality_ratenumber"Number of infant deaths under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births in the same calendar year in New York City "
Neonatal Mortality Rateneonatal_mortality_ratenumberNumber of infant deaths under 28 days of age per 1,000 live births in the same calendar year in New York City
Postneonatal Mortality Ratepostneonatal_mortality_ratenumberNumber of infant deaths with age between 1 month and 1 year per 1,000 live births in the same calendar year in New York City:
Infant Deathsinfant_deathsnumberNumber of infant deaths under 1 year of age in New York City.
Neonatal Infant Deathsneonatal_infant_deathsnumberNumber of infant deaths under 28 days of age in New York City.
Postneonatal Infant Deathspostneonatal_infant_deathsnumberNumber of infant deaths with age between 1 month and 1 year in New York City.
Number of Live Birthsnumber_of_live_birthsnumberNumber of live newborns in New York City.