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Number of births in mainland China during January 2014 and December 2017, by month (information taken from county level monthly aggregated data). Both selective and universal two child policies were assumed to take effect about nine months after being announced. The year of the sheep in the Chinese calendar, falling between February 2015 and February 2016, is considered to be a particularly unlucky time of birth
