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  "alt": "A figure with two tabs. The first is a tile map of state infant mortality rates, with most of the highest rates in the South and the lowest in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. The second is a ranked dot plot with intervals, with Mississippi highest and Massachusetts and New Hampshire lowest, and the lowest two with overlapping intervals.",
  "caption": "The tabs show the same {fact:jurisdictions} rates, one as tiles on a map and one ranked. The tiles show where the high rates are; the ranking shows how far apart the ends are and which states are indistinguishable from the national rate.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "imr_by_state",
  "notes": [
    "Rates are infant deaths in 2018 to 2022 over live births in the same years, pooled over the five years, for the {fact:jurisdictions} jurisdictions. WONDER publishes every state total in full, so no state has a withheld cell.",
    "Intervals are 95% intervals on the death counts (gamma for small counts and normal for large ones, the NCHS convention described in the methods note); they treat deaths as independent and leave out differences between counties within a state.",
    "WONDER weights infant deaths, so a total can differ from the unweighted number of records by rounding."
  ],
  "source": "CDC WONDER linked birth and infant death, 2018-2022; crude rates from full counts",
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          "caption": "Tiles toward the high end of the key are states with more infant deaths per birth; each tile prints its rate, and hovering gives the interval and the births behind it.",
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                "More infant deaths"
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            "value": "rate",
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          "subtitle": "Infant deaths per {fact:per_1000}, by state and DC, 2018 to 2022",
          "title": "{fact:south_in_top} of the {fact:states_top_n} states with the highest infant mortality rates are in the South, which has {fact:imr_south} deaths per {fact:per_1000} against {fact:imr_rest} elsewhere",
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        "label": "Map of states"
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          "caption": "The dots fall from Mississippi at the top to Massachusetts and New Hampshire at the bottom, whose intervals overlap, and the dashed rule marks the national rate of {fact:imr_natl}. The whiskers are 95% intervals on the death counts.",
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            },
            {
              "conf_high": 4.2,
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              "state": "New Hampshire"
            },
            {
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              "conf_low": 3.48,
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            "xLabel": "Infant deaths per 1,000 live births",
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          "subtitle": "Infant deaths per {fact:per_1000} with 95% intervals, by state and DC, 2018 to 2022, ranked from the highest rate",
          "title": "Mississippi's rate of {fact:imr_state_high} is {fact:imr_state_ratio} times Massachusetts's {fact:imr_state_low}",
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        "label": "States ranked"
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  "subtitle": "Infant deaths per {fact:per_1000}, by state and DC, 2018 to 2022; the first tab maps the rates and the second ranks them with intervals",
  "title": "Infant mortality ran from {fact:imr_state_low} per {fact:per_1000} in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to {fact:imr_state_high} in Mississippi",
  "type": "tabs",
  "width": "wide"
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