{
  "alt": "A dot plot with four rows. The dot for Black mothers is at the far right, well above the dot for white mothers, the dot for all mothers lies between them, and the dot for Asian or Pacific Islander mothers is furthest left. All whiskers are short.",
  "caption": "The dot for Black mothers lies furthest right and the dot for Asian or Pacific Islander mothers furthest left, and no interval touches another. Each dot is a pooled crude rate from state counts. American Indian or Alaska Native mothers are not shown because WONDER withholds too many of their state-years.",
  "data": [
    {
      "conf_high": 5.68,
      "conf_low": 5.57,
      "label": "All mothers",
      "n": 7539252,
      "race": "All",
      "rate": 5.63
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 10.49,
      "conf_low": 10.14,
      "label": "Black (any ethnicity)",
      "n": 1255629,
      "race": "Black",
      "rate": 10.32
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 4.78,
      "conf_low": 4.66,
      "label": "White (any ethnicity)",
      "n": 5617093,
      "race": "White",
      "rate": 4.72
    },
    {
      "conf_high": 4.08,
      "conf_low": 3.74,
      "label": "Asian or Pacific Islander (any ethnicity)",
      "n": 524395,
      "race": "Asian",
      "rate": 3.91
    }
  ],
  "id": "imr_by_race",
  "notes": [
    "WONDER counts mothers by single race and includes Hispanic mothers in each group, so the white group here is not the non-Hispanic white group of County Health Rankings. Mother's race is reported in the linked file only for 2018 and 2019.",
    "A state-year cell with fewer than {fact:wonder_suppression_floor} deaths is withheld (1 to 9 deaths) and leaves both deaths and births. The withheld cells hold {fact:black_left_out_share} of births to Black mothers, {fact:white_left_out_share} of births to white mothers and {fact:asian_left_out_share} of births to Asian or Pacific Islander mothers.",
    "For American Indian or Alaska Native mothers WONDER withholds {fact:aian_withheld_cells} of {fact:aian_cells} state-year cells and the published cells hold only {fact:aian_published_share} of their births, so a pooled rate would describe the states with the most deaths. No rate is shown.",
    "Intervals are gamma or normal intervals on the death counts; they treat deaths as independent and leave out differences between states."
  ],
  "source": "CDC WONDER linked birth and infant death, 2018-2019, mother's race (crude rates from full counts)",
  "spec": {
    "colors": {
      "All": "total",
      "Asian": "asian",
      "Black": "black",
      "White": "white"
    },
    "group": "race",
    "hi": "conf_high",
    "legend": false,
    "lo": "conf_low",
    "n": "n",
    "sort": "data",
    "valueLabels": true,
    "x": "rate",
    "xDomain": [
      0,
      14
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Infant deaths per 1,000 live births",
    "y": "label"
  },
  "subtitle": "Infant deaths per {fact:per_1000} by mother's single race, any ethnicity, United States, 2018 and 2019, with 95% intervals",
  "title": "Infant mortality in 2018 and 2019 was {fact:imr_black} per {fact:per_1000} for Black mothers and {fact:imr_white} for white mothers, a ratio of {fact:imr_race_ratio}",
  "type": "dot",
  "width": "wide"
}