Table 2.

 Incidence of cause specific neonatal death by day and time of birth, Scotland 1985-2004

Day of week and time of birth	No (%) of live births	Incidence of neonatal death per 10 000 (95% CI)
		All cause		Anoxia		Not anoxia
Weekday, 0900-1700	287 545 (27.7)	4.2 (3.5 to 5.0)		1.7 (1.3 to 2.3)		2.5 (1.9 to 3.1)
Weekday, 1701-0859	491 025 (47.2)	5.5 (4.8 to 6.2)		2.9 (2.5 to 3.4)		2.6 (2.1 to 3.1)
Weekend, 0900-0859	260 990 (25.1)	5.7 (4.8 to 6.7)		3.1 (2.4 to 3.8)		2.6 (2.1 to 3.3)
All out of hours	752 015 (72.3)	5.6 (5.0 to 6.1)		3.0 (2.6 to 3.4)		2.6 (2.2 to 3.0)