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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep 28;216(1):73.e1–73.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2016.09.097

Table 2.

Kitagawa decomposition of change in infant mortality, United States, 2007–2013.

Gestational age
(weeks)
Contribution of
GA distribution
Contribution of
GA-specific
mortality
Total % of total
change due to
GA distribution
% of total change
due to
GA-specific
mortality
22 −0.024 −0.003 −0.027 −88.1 −11.9
23 −0.046 −0.066 −0.112 −41.0 −59.0
24 −0.031 −0.077 −0.108 −28.7 −71.3
25 −0.018 −0.046 −0.064 −28.4 −71.6
26 −0.007 −0.043 −0.050 −14.0 −86.0
27 −0.008 −0.029 −0.037 −20.4 −79.6
28 −0.011 −0.034 −0.045 −24.1 −75.9
29 −0.007 −0.035 −0.042 −16.8 −83.2
30 −0.006 −0.008 −0.013 −42.7 −57.3
31 −0.004 −0.007 −0.012 −38.1 −61.9
32 −0.007 −0.011 −0.018 −38.1 −61.9
33 −0.005 0.002 −0.003 −179.5 79.5
34 −0.005 −0.002 −0.007 −68.5 −31.5
35 −0.019 −0.014 −0.033 −57.2 −42.8
36 −0.030 −0.012 −0.042 −72.1 −27.9
37 −0.018 −0.008 −0.027 −68.4 −31.6
38 −0.113 −0.019 −0.132 −85.3 −14.7
39 0.144 −0.065 0.079 181.9 −81.9
40 −0.025 −0.052 −0.077 −32.0 −68.0
41 −0.003 −0.024 −0.028 −11.9 −88.1
42 −0.004 −0.001 −0.005 −81.4 −18.6
>42 −0.003 0.001 −0.002 −137.0 37.0

TOTALS −0.250 −0.554 −0.804 −31.1 −68.9

GA, gestational age