United States 2010 infant mortality and number of physicians by state, including the District of Columbia.
Format
A data frame with 51 rows and 3 columns.
stateCharacter vector vector, US State including the District of Columbia
inf.mortNumeric vector, number of deaths per 1000 live births between 1 day and 1 year of age
doctorsNumeric vector, active physicians per 100,000 population
Source
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2009/compendia/statab/129ed/births-deaths-marriages-divorces.html, https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2009/compendia/statab/129ed/health-nutrition.html
Details
Data were abstracted from the 2010 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Due to a lag in recording state level data, the infant mortality data is from
2009 and the data on physicians from 2007. Both measurements are subject to
change annually, so these data are not current and should not be used for
inference about infant mortality. More current data can be found at the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortality.htm), and in the dataset infant_mort_2022.