Sociodemographic data on live births children, Brazil, 2018-2022

The dataset is an open data from the Sistema de Informação de Nascidos Vivos (SINASC), which is a system implemented by the Brazilian federal government in the 1990s, with the purpose of collecting data on all live births in the national territory. The system makes it possible to provide information on birth rates for all levels of the Brazilian health system, as well as the development of relevant indicators in the strategic planning of management to support the planning of actions, activities, public policies and programs aimed at health.

The dataset is related to three years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022) of SINASC referring only to the state of Pernambuco, and it is composed of routine prenatal data, gestational history, sociodemographic data and data of newborns. born, including their weight.