This folder contains data behind the story Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th.
There are two files:
US_births_1994-2003_CDC_NCHS.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 1994 to 2003, as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.
Both files have the following structure:
| Header | Definition |
|---|---|
year |
Year |
month |
Month |
date_of_month |
Day number of the month |
day_of_week |
Day of week, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday |
births |
Number of births |