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Neonatal Mortality Rates in Brazilian Municipalities: from 1996 to 2017
Overview
Objectives
Neonatal mortality is a global public health problem, and the efforts to reduce child mortality is one of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, launched in 2015 by the United Nations. The availability of historical neonatal mortality rates (NMR) data in Brazilian municipalities is crucial to evaluate trends at local, regional and national level, identifying gaps and vulnerable territories. Therefore, the objective of this article is to offer an integrated dataset containing monthly data in a historical series from 1996 to 2017 with information on all births, neonatal deaths, and NMR (total, early and late components) enriched with information related to the municipality.
Data Description
It is a dataset of historical data with information on the number of births, the number of neonatal deaths, the neonatal mortality rate (including early and late), and geographic information for each month (between January 1996 and December 2017) and Brazilian municipality.
Data and Code
The code description (implemented in R) complements this work. This material can be found in the Synapse repository: https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn22241002/wiki/604501
In it, it is possible to check the entire process on the construction of the datasets and the datasets themselves.
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Links to data files/datasets
- NM_County_B: dataset of neonatal mortality rates by municipality of birth
- NM_County_R: dataset of neonatal mortality rates by municipality of residence
- dict_NM_county: attribute dictionary
- data_construction: description of the entire data construction process
- data_validation: code with the data analysis
- ETL: complementary files of the dataset construction
Rebecca Salles
Samella Salles
Marcel Pedroso
