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Low Birthweight Babies (Number) – 2009

Data Provided by: Agenda for Children

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Scale: 7 - 747


Louisiana	6,922
Acadia	84
Allen	23
Ascension	150
Assumption	28
Avoyelles	65
Beauregard	34
Bienville	26
Bossier	158
Caddo	556
Calcasieu	344
Caldwell	21
Cameron	LNE
Catahoula	13
Claiborne	27
Concordia	27
De Soto	41
East Baton Rouge	747
East Carroll	16
East Feliciana	26
Evangeline	73
Franklin	30
Grant	31
Iberia	139
Iberville	47
Jackson	20
Jefferson	565
Jefferson Davis	45
La Salle	16
Lafayette	326
Lafourche	115
Lincoln	58
Livingston	142
Madison	25
Morehouse	50
Natchitoches	54
Orleans	552
Ouachita	284
Plaquemines	30
Pointe Coupee	40
Rapides	199
Red River	20
Richland	30
Sabine	22
St. Bernard	53
St. Charles	92
St. Helena	17
St. James	39
St. John the Baptist	72
St. Landry	151
St. Martin	74
St. Mary	82
St. Tammany	238
Tangipahoa	197
Tensas	9
Terrebonne	175
Union	31
Vermilion	97
Vernon	74
Washington	73
Webster	71
West Baton Rouge	41
West Carroll	7
West Feliciana	7
Winn	19

Definitions:
Number: Number of live births with birth weight less than 2,500 grams (or 5 pounds, 8 ounces)
Rate: Number of live births with birth weight less than 2,500 grams (or 5 pounds, 8 ounces) per 100 live births.

Data Source: Live births 2001-2009: Louisiana State Center for Health Statistics

Footnotes: LNE (Low Number Event): Numbers are not reported when there were more than zero and fewer than five events during the reporting period. Rates based on fewer than 20 events are not reported because they may be unstable.

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