This data table reports the annual number of births that occurred in each California county regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to residents of each California county regardless of where the birth occurred (by residence).

1960-2023 Final Births by Year by County

Live Birth Profiles by County

Two-digit month in which the event occurred. Records without valid months are excluded. The sum of counts by month for a given year may not equal the annual count.

Month

County Name

Whether the geography is based on the place of residence or place of occurrence. A geography type of Residence includes events for California residents even if they occurred outside of California, whereas a geography type of Occurrence includes events that occurred within California even if they were not California residents.

Geography Type

General demographic or detail category under which events have been stratified. For example, Race-Ethnicity or Sex. Will be Total Population if there is no stratification.

Strata

Individual strata within the general demographic or detail category. For example, Hispanic or Female. Will be Total Population if there is no stratification.

Strata Name

Count of events. If blank, see annotation for more information.

Count

Annotation code for count as single digit: blank = no annotation; 1 = cell suppressed for small numbers; 2 = cell suppressed for complementary cell; 3 = no data is available; 4 = statistically unstable value.

Annotation Code

Descriptive text for the data annotation.

Annotation Description

For provisional data, date when the data was extracted (MM/DD/YYYY). Provisional counts are based on the data available when the data was extracted and may not represent all events that occurred during the time period.

Data Extraction Date

Date data was created or revised (MM/DD/YYYY).

1960-2023 Final Births by Year by County

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