Annual Early Childhood Deaths by State
Data as of 2023Annual number of deaths aged less than 5 year old by state, broken down into perinatal, neonatal, infant and toddler deaths.
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How is this data produced?
This data is a subset of the data on deaths, for which the following definitions should be noted:
- Toddler Death: Death of a person aged 1 to 4 years old.
- Infant Death: Death of a person less than 1 year old.
- Neonatal Death: Death of a infant aged less than 28 days old (subset of infant deaths).
- Perinatal Death: Death of an infant less than 7 days old (subset of infant deaths), and stillbirths.
For a deeper understanding of the methodology and associated definitions, please refer to the Technical Notes.
What caveats I should bear in mind when using this data?
This data is derived based on deaths registered with JPN. Therefore, if an early childhood death is not registered with JPN (for instance, if the death of a foreign child is registered in their home country, or the death of a citizen in a remote area is not registered), it will generally not count in this dataset. However, adjustment has been made to the number of deaths in Sabah to account for the under-reporting of deaths detected based on the 'Study of Under Reporting of Deaths in Sabah', which was conducted by DOSM and approved by the Steering Committee on Implementation of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in 2016.
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Dataset description
Annual number of deaths aged less than 5 year old by state, broken down into perinatal, neonatal, infant and toddler deaths.
Variable definitions
- State
- Type
- Date
- Deaths
- Mortality Rate
Name in Dataset | Variable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
state (Categorical) | State | One of 16 states |
type (Categorical) | Type | The type of early childhood death, either total under-5 deaths ('total'), toddler ('toddler'), infant ('infant'), neonatal ('neonatal'), or perinatal ('perinatal'). |
date (Date) | Date | The date in YYYY-MM-DD format, with MM-DD set to 01-01 since the data is at annual frequency |
abs (Integer) | Deaths | Number of deaths in that year |
rate (Float) | Mortality Rate | Number of deaths per 1000 births (for perinatal deaths), 1000 live births (for neonatal and infant deaths), or 1000 population aged 1-4 years (for toddler deaths) |
Last updated:
17 Oct 2024, 12:00
Next update:
01 Nov 2025, 12:00
Data source(s)
- National Registration Department
- Department of Statistics Malaysia
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# If not already installed, do: pip install pandas fastparquet
import pandas as pd
URL_DATA = 'https://storage.dosm.gov.my/demography/deaths_early_childhood_state.parquet'
df = pd.read_parquet(URL_DATA)
if 'date' in df.columns: df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'])
print(df)Sample OpenAPI query
The following code is an example of how to make an API query to retrieve the data catalogue mentioned above. You can use different programming languages by switching the code accordingly. For a complete guide on possible query parameters and syntax, please refer to the official Open API Documentation.
import requests
import pprint
url = "https://api.data.gov.my/data-catalogue?id=deaths_early_childhood_state&limit=3"
response_json = requests.get(url=url).json()
pprint.pprint(response_json)
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