We hope you will find this information useful in your professional activities. When using and reporting the data included on this webpage and its linkages, please identify and give appropriate credit to the sources. For rare events, such as infant mortality, statistics should be used with caution. There may be large fluctuations between years due to small sample size or population. A single year difference is inconclusive.
Trends are important.
For example, a large jump in the infant mortility rate in a county may be due to an increase of 1 or 2 cases. Please take note of the unit of analyis in which the data is presented. It may differ by source. Caution is necessary in the interpretation of percentages, rates and ratios, as they may not represent the same information. We believe that you will find the data and information provided to be useful.