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Table 9 Contents of Tables 2-8, reporting multiple birth weight percentiles for singleton infants born at 22 through 44 completed weeks of gestation. All data are from the 6,690,717 singleton infants in the 1999–2000 US Natality Datasets eligible for inclusion. Investigators can electronically download the data incorporated in these tables as reference for analyses of the determinants or sequelae of fetal growth. Tables can be found in the attached in additional file named 'Tables 1-8.xls'.

From: A nearly continuous measure of birth weight for gestational age using a United States national reference

Table           

Infants included

Number of births from which the

percentiles are derived

Name of worksheet within the

Tables 1-8.xls file

Table 2

All births

6,690,717

Table 2-All

Table 3

Males

3,423,215

Table 3-Males

Table 4

Females

3,267,502

Table 4-Females

Table 5

Firstborn

2,755,841

Table 5-Firstborn

Table 6

Non-firstborn

3,917,426

Table 6-Nonfirstborn

Table 7

Non-Hispanic whites

3,979,490

Table 7-Whiteonly

Table 8

Non-Hispanic blacks

954,021

Table 8-Blackonly

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