Sorry, that was a nasty diversionary tactic, but I’m desperate. I need help. Long story short: Statistics semester long project. Me: stuck with a slacker and a sorority chick, and doing badly in the class, so I NEED a good grade on the project. You: web-junkie with a gift for finding data.
We are trying to link low weight births to smoking and living in a non-metropolitan area. I found great numbers for Vermont, but I need to use the country as a whole as a comparison. My problem is too much information.
I will send, via US Mail, a box of chocolates to anyone who finds the following:
data from the years 1996, 1997 and 1998 on the following topics, on a national level:
Low Weight Births
Number of Low Weight Births born to smokers
I am DESPERATE to find the numbers of metropolitan low weight births vs. non-metropolitan. I would settle, at this point, for population numbers (estimates are fine) on metro vs. non. (60% of Americans live in rural settings is too vauge, though. I need the actual numbers to show how I got the percentages.)
Help me, my Dopin’ Internet Librarians. heeeellllpppp!
A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:
“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!
Well, I feel cheated. But I’ll give you a link to the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. anyway. This is a huge database of demographic information published every year by the Census Bureau. You’ll need Adobe® Acrobat® to read the .pdf files.
Sqrl rocks. Hardcore. Seriously, man, I don’t care what they say about you and Ed Asner.
I’m mainly looking for the population (metropolitan vs: non-metro nationally) stuff. But those numbers will help with the smoking. By this time, I am quite familiar with the CDC and the Census’s pages, but I can’t seem to get a search that gives me the population for metropolitan areas in the US in 96, 97, and 98. I can get the numbers by county, but damned if I’m gonna sit there and add all the population numbers up to get ONE number. I can get the estimated total pops for those years, and subtract to get the non-metro numbers, which is really what I need. Does that make sense to anyone other than the voice in my head?
A little persistance goes a long way. Announcing:
“I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig!
The CDC is a really good source. Too bad my friend who worked there is now back in Atlanta. Incidently, my bank is located in the CDC headquarters in DC.