Naked People and Beer!!!!

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!

http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/ch_smprg.htm

Abstract plus links: http://search.knowledgestor.com/info/com_apnet_pmed_pmed_1994_1004.html

American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap.org/search/query.idq?CiRestriction=smoking+and+birth+weight&CiScope=%2F&CiMaxRecordsPerPage=25&TemplateName=query&CiSort=rank%5Bd%5D%2Cwrite%5Bd%5D&HTMLQueryForm=que ry.htm

which has the following articles:
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/washing/muriel.htm http://www.aap.org/advocacy/chmhets.htm

A table from the above search: http://www.aap.org/policy/04791t3.htm

Environmental tobacco smoke: http://www.aap.org/family/envtob.htm

Low Birth weight page with a chart in Missouri: http://www.oseda.missouri.edu/kidcnt/lbwt.html

A Chicago Tribune Article: http://chicagotribune.com/textversion/article/0%2C1492%2CSAV-9808240161%2C00.html

A webpaper with good linked articles: http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1998/06/25/tri03.html

From Duke University: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/Med/CIGBABY.HTM

From the Center for Disease Control: http://search.cdc.gov/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe and if that doesn’t work (sorry they were in PDF format and this PC couldn’t paste from it) go to this page http://www.cdc.gov/search.htm and search the exact following: smoking, low birth weight

HUGS! I hope this helps.
Sqrl


SqrlCub’s Arizona Adventure

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. :smiley:

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!

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh/pdf/hus98.pdf specifically pages 10-14. There is an index to cross reference with.

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.

Thanks SR for the compliment.
HUGS!
Sqrl

SqrlCub’s Arizona Adventure

Oh, you naughty, naughty Squirrel, you. Look what you did to the page! Bad Squirrel, bad Squirrel!


Sig Alert!

There’s an acorn bank in DC?!

Would you be interested in some numbers showing how naked people and beer combined result in a higher birth rate?

I can also illustrate with a live demonstration.