Vital Statistics Live Birth Data by Mother's Race/Ethnicity and Resident County: Beginning 2008

health.data.ny.gov | Last Updated 7 Mar 2024

This dataset contains the number of New York State live births stratified by the mother's race/ethnicity and county of residence. The data presented here may not be the same as the Vital Statistics tables on the DOH public web due to data updates. For more information, check out: : http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/vital_statistics/. The "About" tab contains additional details concerning this dataset.

Tags: live births, vital statistics, race, ethnicity, births-deaths-other facts

This dataset has the following 5 columns:

Column NameAPI Column NameData TypeDescriptionSample Values
YearyearnumberYear of birth.
TabletablenumberCorresponding table from the Vital Statistics Annual Report that has the data in tabular form.
CountycountytextGeographical area of the state, either a county, the entire state, New York City, or Rest of State.
Mother's Racecategory_descriptiontextCategory of Mother’s Race. Black Only Hispanic, Black Only Non – Hispanic, Other Non- Hispanic, Total Hispanic, Total Non – Hispanic, White only, and White Only Non-Hispanic.
Number of Live BirthsvaluenumberNumber of Live Births