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New Zealand Fetal and Infant Deaths 2011

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General Info
Provider 
Ministry of Health (New Zealand)
Tabulations only
Geography 
New Zealand (NZL)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/1996 - 12/2011
Series or system 
New Zealand Fetal and Infant Deaths Series
Data type
Vital registration
Summary 

Fetal and Infant Deaths is an annual statistical publication series prepared by the New Zealand Ministry of Health that presents the number of live births, fetal deaths, and infant deaths in the country. Tabulations on causes of death by gender are also included. Also presented in these tabulated data are gestation period, birth weight, age at death, and trends in Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI).

Births and deaths data come from the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Citizenship Registry (BDM) and is extracted by the Ministry of Health's Mortality Collection (MORT) for these tables.

Keywords 
Birth asphyxia, Birth certificates, Birth weight, Blood disorders, Brain and nervous system cancers, Cancers, Cardiomyopathies, Cardiovascular and circulatory diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Congenital anomalies, Death certificates, Digestive diseases, Down's syndrome, Drownings, Epilepsy, Ethnicity, Exposure to forces of nature, Gestational age, Infant mortality, Infectious diseases, Inguinal and femoral hernia, Intestinal infectious diseases, Leukemia, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Malnutrition, Meningitis, Meningococcal meningitis, Mortality, Musculoskeletal diseases, Neonatal conditions, Neural tube defects, Preterm birth complications, Respiratory infections, Sepsis, Stillbirths, Sudden infant death syndrome, Suffocation, Turner syndrome, Unintentional injuries, Urinary diseases, Varicella
GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 31, 2021