natalityr provides tools for importing, processing, and analyzing CDC Natality Public Use Files (2016-2024). Imported features and analyses are focused on birth mother characteristics and method of delivery.
This package includes functions that:
Import fixed-width natality files.
Create derived variables for cesarean status and NTSV classification.
View CDC code information for natality variables.
Calculate cesarean delivery rates and Wilson confidence intervals.
You can install natalityr from GitHub using:
devtools::install_github("nicossoares/natalityr")Upon completion, you can run the following code in R:
library(natalityr)Current dependencies for this library include reticulate, arrow, dplyr, and stats.
You can view the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/nicossoares/natalityr
The package website is available here: https://nicossoares.github.io/natalityr/
In the future, this package may be updated to fulfill some of the following goals:
Allow for the inclusion of additional variables regarding the infant, health outcomes post-delivery, and more.
Allow for the user to choose whether to use the CDC’s pre-imputed entries, or to code all missing values as NA so that the user may customize missing data methods.
Create a derived variable for labor pathways during the data-processing function.
This package was developed in the following environment.
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