Statewide Live Birth Profiles

This dataset contains counts of live births for California as a whole based on information entered on birth certificates. Final counts are derived from static data and include out of state births to California residents, whereas provisional counts are derived from incomplete and dynamic data. Provisional counts are based on the records available when the data was retrieved and may not represent all births that occurred during the time period.

The final data tables include both births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to California residents (by residence), whereas the provisional data table only includes births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence). The data are reported as totals, as well as stratified by parent giving birth's age, parent giving birth's race-ethnicity, and birth place type. See temporal coverage for more information on which strata are available for which years.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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issued 2020-06-11T15:33:42.067112
modified 2022-04-21T17:22:33.894422
publisher California Department of Public Health
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • adolescent-births
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • birth
  • birth-certificate
  • birth-place
  • california-department-of-public-health
  • cdph
  • chsi
  • ckan
  • ethnicity
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  • geoss
  • live-births
  • national
  • north-america
  • public-health
  • race
  • united-states
  • vital-statistics
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maintainer California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics and Informatics, Vital Statistics Branch
maintainer_email opendata@cdph.ca.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T19:26:48.709949
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T19:26:48.709954
notes This dataset contains counts of live births for California as a whole based on information entered on birth certificates. Final counts are derived from static data and include out of state births to California residents, whereas provisional counts are derived from incomplete and dynamic data. Provisional counts are based on the records available when the data was retrieved and may not represent all births that occurred during the time period. The final data tables include both births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to California residents (by residence), whereas the provisional data table only includes births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence). The data are reported as totals, as well as stratified by parent giving birth's age, parent giving birth's race-ethnicity, and birth place type. See temporal coverage for more information on which strata are available for which years.
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num_tags 20
title Statewide Live Birth Profiles