NAME: Time of Birth, Sex, and Birth Weight of 44 Babies

TYPE: Observational
SIZE: 44 observations, 4 variables



DESCRIPTIVE ABSTRACT:
The dataset contains the time of birth, sex, and birth weight for each
 of
 44 babies born in one 24-hour period at a Brisbane, Australia,
hospital.  Also included is the 
number of minutes since midnight for
each birth.

SOURCE: 
The data appeared in the Brisbane 
newspaper _The Sunday Mail_ on
December 21, 1997.



VARIABLE DESCRIPTIONS: 


Columns
 1 -  8  Time of birth recorded on the 24-hour clock
 
9 - 16  Sex of the child (1 = girl, 2 = boy)

17 - 24  Birth weight in grams

25 - 32  Number of minutes after midnight of each birth

Values are aligned and delimited by blanks.

There are no missing
values.



STORY BEHIND THE DATA:
Forty-four babies -- a new record -- were born in one 24-hour period 
at
the Mater Mothers' Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on
December 18, 1997.  
For each of the 44 babies, _The Sunday Mail_
recorded the time of birth, the sex of the child, 
and the birth weight
in grams.

Additional information about these data can be found in the 
"Datasets
and Stories" article "A Simple Dataset for Demonstrating Common
Distributions" 
in the _Journal of Statistics Education_ (Dunn 1999).




REFERENCE:


Steele, S. (December 21, 1997), "Babies by the Dozen for Christmas:
24-Hour Baby Boom," 
_The Sunday Mail_ (Brisbane), p. 7.



SUBMITTED BY:
Peter K. Dunn
Department of Mathematics and Computing
University of Southern 
Queensland
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia 4350
dunn@usq.edu.au
