/* Distribution of discovered Downs' syndrome cases and of total live births by maternal age and birth order, Michigan, 1950- 1964. Data Items 1 AgeL Lower limit of Maternal Age category (limit for "under 20" arbitrarily set to 15) 2 AgeU Upper limit of Maternal Age category (limit for "over 40" arbitrarily set to 50) 3 BirthOrd Birth Order (1=1, 2=2, 3=3, 4=4, 5 = 5 or higher) 4 Cases Number of cases 5 Births Number of Live Births ----------- Taken from Table 14.4, page 249 of Fleiss J "Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions" 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 1981. Fleiss gives the source of the data as: Stark CR and Mantel N (1966) "Effects of maternal age and birth order on the risk of mongolism and leukemia" J Natl Cancer Inst 37 687-698. */ DATA a; INPUT AgeL AgeU BirthOrd Cases Births ; LINES; 15 19 1 107 230061 15 19 2 25 72202 15 19 3 3 15050 15 19 4 1 2293 15 19 5 0 327 20 24 1 141 329449 20 24 2 150 326701 20 24 3 71 175702 20 24 4 26 68800 20 24 5 8 30666 25 29 1 60 114920 25 29 2 110 208667 25 29 3 114 207081 25 29 4 64 132424 25 29 5 63 123419 30 34 1 40 39487 30 34 2 84 83228 30 34 3 103 117300 30 34 4 89 98301 30 34 5 112 149919 35 39 1 39 14208 35 39 2 82 28466 35 39 3 108 45026 35 39 4 137 46075 35 39 5 262 104088 40 50 1 25 3052 40 50 2 39 5375 40 50 3 75 8660 40 50 4 96 9834 40 50 5 295 34392 ; PROC PRINT; RUN;