International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on Birthweight; Plurality; and Perinatal and Infant Mortality: I: Methods of Data Collection and Analysis
- 11 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 68 (1) , 5-10
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00016348909087681
Abstract
This paper describes the collection and analysis of data by a group of international collaborators (International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality) interested in comparative studies on birthweight distributions and reproductive outcome. This is the first of a series of reports on the results of these studies. It gives an account of the countries or states involved, and the collection and characteristics of the data. The countries and states included sixteen of the United States, plus England and Wales, Denmark, Bavaria and North Rhine‐Westphalia from the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden. The data comprised birth‐weight distributions in 500‐gram groups for all births and for singletons separately, for livebirths, stillbirths, first week deaths and, where available, late neonatal and infant deaths, from 1970 up to 1985.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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