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Query Builder for New Jersey Fetal Death Data - Fetal Mortality Rate

Query Builder Page Options

  • Select year grouping and year(s). Default is single years, most recent year.

  • Selecting years

    Use Ctrl to make multiple selections or drag the mouse to select consecutive years.

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  • Choose mother's age at time of delivery. Default is all ages.

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  • Race and Ethnicity

    Race and Hispanic ethnicity are collected separately on fetal death certificates.

    Therefore each fetal death record has both a race (White, Black, etc.) and an ethnicity (Hispanic or non-Hispanic) for the mother and data for race and ethnicity may be presented separately (Race or Hispanic origin) or combined (Race/Ethnicity).

    Choose race, ethnicity, or race/ethnicity combined. Click the globe link for more information.

  • Mother's Race

    Race groups include both Hispanics and non-Hispanics.

  • Mother's Ethnicity

    Ethnicity groups include persons of any race.

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  • Choose other characteristics of the mother to include in your analysis. The default is all mothers.

  • Mother's Birthplace

    NCHS uses "United States" to mean the 50 states plus the District of Columbia.U.S. Territories are Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa*, and Northern Marianas*. (*Included in "Remainder of World" prior to 2014.)To see results for the 50 states, DC, and territories combined, select both "U.S. States and D.C." and "U.S. Territories."In NJ, when maternal nativity = U.S. Territories, approximately 97% are from Puerto Rico.

  • Parity

    Parity is the number of previous live-born children a woman has delivered. Select 0 if looking for information about the first child born to a woman.

  • Alcohol Use

    Alcohol use during pregnancy is not collected on the new electronic birth registration system that was installed in New Jersey hospitals beginning in July, 2014, therefore all maternal alcohol use data after 2013 is shown as Unknown.

  • Drug Use

    Reporting of drug use during pregnancy was incomplete before 1996 and after 2013, therefore all maternal drug use data for 1990-1995 and after 2013 are shown as Unknown.

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  • Choose fetal characteristics to include in the analysis. The default is all characteristics.

  • Delivery Weight

    Very Low Delivery Weight: Delivery weight less than 1500 grams (about 3.3 lbs.)

    Low Delivery Weight: Delivery weight less than 2500 grams (about 5.5 lbs.)

    Normal Delivery Weight: Delivery weight at least 2500 grams but less than 4,000 grams

    High Delivery Weight: Delivery weight greater than 4,000 grams (about 8.8 lbs.)

  • Gestational Age

    Gestational Age is the period of time a baby is carried in the uterus or the duration of the pregnancy, measured from the first day of the last menstrual period. Full-term gestation is between 37 and 42 weeks.

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  • Choose health services utilization characteristics to include in your analysis. The default is all characteristics.

  • Prenatal Care Recommendations

    It is recommended that pregnant women begin prenatal care during their first three months (first trimester) of pregnancy.

  • Number of Prenatal Care Visits

    ACOG recommends the following prenatal care visit schedule:

    1 visit per month (every 4 weeks) until week 28

    2 visits per month (every 2 to 3 weeks) from weeks 28 to 36

    1 visit per week from week 36 until birth

    Certain medical conditions in pregnancy may necessitate more visits.

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  • NCHS Leading Causes of Death

    The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has developed a uniform procedure for ranking causes of death. Using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding structure, 124 selected causes of fetal death were consolidated from the entire ICD-10 coding structure. Of these 124 causes, a subset of 45 rankable causes were selected to denote the most frequently occurring causes of death among causes eligible for ranking. Use the help page (globe) link to the right for a listing with ICD-10 codes.

    Choose cause groups. The default is all causes of death. Hover over blue ? bubble or click on globe link for more information.

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  • Selecting Geography

    Select the geographic areas you want to include.

    Choose the geographic areas to include in your analysis. The default is all New Jersey residents.

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Primary group by field

Defines the data's primary grouping dimension. The primary grouping is required and also controls the ordering of the result's data rows. In MS-Excel and other graphing packages this is typically referred to as the the "dataset's category". If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this value/dimension is associated with table's "row" values. Others will refer to this value as the first "cross by" or the first dimension.

Optional secondary group by field

Defines the 2nd field (or dimension) to be used to group and aggregate values by. MS-Excel chart users will commonly refer to this as the dataset's "series" field. If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this field is associated with data table's value columns. Series group bys are optional. Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified.

Optional chart graph

Defines the optional chart graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified. All other charts will only work with a maximum of 2 group bys e.g. if the fixed group by exists then the series group by can NOT be used with charting or maps.

Optional Map Visualization

Defines the optional map graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps are only available when the category is set to a geographical area and does not have a series defined.

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