The Child Health and Development Studies investigate a range of topics. One
study, in particular, considered all pregnancies between 1960 and 1967 among
women in the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan in the San Francisco East Bay
area. We do not have ideal provenance for these data. For a better documented
and more recent dataset on a similar topic with similar variables,
see births14. Additionally, Gestation
dataset in the
mosaicData
package also contains similar data.
babies
A data frame with 1236 rows and 8 variables:
id number
birthweight, in ounces
length of gestation, in days
binary indicator for a first pregnancy (0 = first pregnancy)
mother's age in years
mother's height in inches
mother's weight in pounds
binary indicator for whether the mother smokes