Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Caesareans in Canadian hospitals

Keywords:

caesareans, proportions

Categories:

health;
one- and two-sample data

Description:

The data give the number of births in Ontario, Canada, from 1982/83 to 1991/92, and the number of caesarean section in the same years.

There are 10 years of data for two variables.

Variables:

Year	The year (as 1982/83, 1983/84, etc)
Deliveries	The total number of birth deliveries
Caesarens	The total number of caesarean sections

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Anderson, Geoffrey M. "Cesarean Section: Regional and hospital-specific rates" in C David Naylor, Geoffrey M Anderson and Vivek Goel (editors). 1994. Patterns of Health Care in Ontario (The ICES Practice Atlas Volume 1). Canadian Medical Association (Exhibit 6.1, page 138).

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