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HES Data Dictionary
| HES field name | Number of babies | ||||
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| Field | numbaby | ||||
| Class | Maternity | ||||
| Length and format | 1n or X | ||||
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| Description | |||||
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This field contains the number of babies delivered at the end of a single pregnancy. Both live and stillborn babies are counted. Until 2002-03, a maximum of 6 babies could be recorded in HES. |
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| Value | |||||
1 = One 2 = Two 3 = Three 4 = Four 5 = Five 6 = Six or more 9 = Not known: a validation error X = Not known |
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