Birth Tables

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Follow these steps to create a table from South Carolina Resident Birth data.

Step One

Select row variable (default: Year). YearMaternal RaceMaternal EthnicityMaternal AgeMarital Status
BirthweightGestational AgeRegionBirth Characteristic

Step Two

Select column variable (default: Race). YearMaternal RaceMaternal EthnicityMaternal AgeMarital Status
BirthweightGestational AgeRegionBirth Characteristic

Step Three

Select Year(s) of interest (default: 2022). At least 1 year has to be selected 19901991199219931994199519961997199819992000
20012002200320042005200620072008200920102011
20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
All Years

Step Four

Specify Race, Ethnicity, Age and/or Marital Status below: (default: All Races, All Ethnicities, All Ages, All Marital Status, All Birthweights, All Gestational Ages)

Maternal Race Maternal Ethnicity Maternal Age

Marital Status Birth Weight Gestational Age

* PATACK: paternity acknowledgment

Step Five

Select Region (default: County). ZipcodeCounty

Step Six

Select Region of interest.
Warning: To maximize visibility, no more than seven columns should be selected
To select multiple non-sequential regions hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click on desired regions.

Sort alphabetically by region or numerically by statistic (default: Alphabetically)
Note: In order to sort, Region must be the row variable. AlphabeticallyNumerically

Step Seven

Select a Birth Characteristic (default: All Births).
Warning: To maximize visibility, no more than seven columns should be selected To select multiple non-sequential characteristics hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click on desired characteristics.

Sort by Group Name or Alphabetically (default: By Group Name)
Group Name Alphabetical

See Definitions for more details and information regarding the new 2004 birth certificate

Step Eight

Choose Output Preference (default: Frequencies). Frequencies
Frequencies and Rates*
Frequencies and Percents by column
Frequencies and Percents by row *In order to view rates, "Counties" or "DHEC Regions" must be specified in Step 5.

Step Nine

Choose Confidence Interval (default: No Confidence Intervals).
No Confidence Intervals
95% Confidence Intervals
99% Confidence Intervals **In order to view confidence intervals, frequencies and rates must be selected in Step 8.

Step Ten

Table
Table and Trend-line*
Table and Bar Chart
Table, Trend-line* and Bar Chart * Available for consecutive years, when Year is chosen as Column Variable.

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South Carolina
Abbeville
Aiken
Allendale
Anderson
Bamberg
Barnwell
Beaufort
Berkeley
Calhoun
Charleston
Cherokee
Chester
Chesterfield
Clarendon
Colleton
Darlington
Dillon
Dorchester
Edgefield
Fairfield
Florence
Georgetown
Greenville
Greenwood
Hampton
Horry
Jasper
Kershaw
Lancaster
Laurens
Lee
Lexington
McCormick
Marion
Marlboro
Newberry
Oconee
Orangeburg
Pickens
Richland
Saluda
Spartanburg
Sumter
Union
Williamsburg
York
Unknown

All Births
Medical and Health Information
...Anemia (mother)
...Diabetes (gestational)
...Diabetes (mother)
...Diabetes (prepregnancy)
...Electronic Fetal Monitoring
...Forceps used during delivery
...Genital Herpes (mother)
...Hypertension (chronic)
...Hypertension (pregnancy associated)
...Induction of Labor
...Previous Macrosomic infant
...Previous preterm/SGA infant
...Primary Cesarean Section
...Repeat Cesarean Section
...Ultrasound
...Vacuum used during delivery
...Vaginal Birth after previous Cesarean Section
...Vaginal Delivery
Mother
...Adequate Kessner
...Adequate Kotelchuck
...Adequate Plus Kotelchuck
...Alcohol use during pregnancy
...Inadequate Kessner
...Inadequate Kotelchuck
...Intermediate Kessner
...Intermediate Kotelchuck
...Less Than Adequate Kessner
...Less Than Adequate Kotelchuck
...Mom's education: less than high school
...Mom's education: more than high school
...Mom's education: only high school
...Mom's PNC: 1st trimester PNC
...Mom's PNC: less than 5 PNC visits
...Mother got WIC food during the pregnancy
...No Prenatal Care
...Obesity prior to the pregnancy
...Overweight prior to the pregnancy
...Principal source of payment for the delivery: Medicaid
...Principal source of payment for the delivery: Private
...Principal source of payment for the delivery: Self-pay
...Tobacco use during pregnancy
...Unknown Kessner
...Unknown Kotelchuck
Newborn
...Anemia (infant)
...Cleft Lip/Palate (infant)
...Down's Syndrome (infant)
...Infant being breastfed
...NICU admission
...Spina Bifida/Meningocele (infant)