DATA:

Low Birth Weight (Matched)

OBSERVATIONS: 116
VARIABLES: 9
VARIABLE DESCRIPTION:
STRATUM
Group number for 1-3 case-control stratum, matched on age
OBS
Observation number within stratum
AGE
Age of mother in years
LOW
Low birth weight
0 = birth weight 2500g
1 = birth weight < 2500g
LWT
Weight in pounds at last menstral period
SMOKE
Smoking status during pregnancy
0 = No
1 = Yes
HT
History of hypertension
0 = No
1 = Yes
UI
Presence of uterine irritability
0 = No
1 = Yes
PTL
History of premature labor
0 = None
1 = One or more

DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT:
The goal of this study was to identify risk factors associated with
giving birth to a low birth weight baby (weighing less than 2500 grams).
Data were originally collected on 189 women, 59 of which had low birth weight
babies and 130 of which had normal birth weight babies. Three controls per
case were selected randomly after matching on age from this original low
birth weight data. Four variables which were thought to be of importance
were age, weight of the subject at her last menstrual period, race, and the
number of physician visits during the first trimester of pregnancy.
SOURCES:
Data were collected at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts,
during 1986.
REFERENCES:
Hosmer and Lemeshow, Applied Logistic Regression, Wiley, (1989), Appendix 4.
WEBSITE:
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~statdata/data/
NOTE:
This data set consists of the 1-3 matched data. The complete original data set
for this low birth weight data may be found in lowbwt.* and a 1 to 1 paired data
set created from the low birth weight data may be found in plowbwt.*.