NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider Ministry of Health (New Zealand)Tabulations only Geography New Zealand (NZL) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/1996 - 12/2013 Series or system New Zealand Fetal and Infant Deaths Series Data type Vital registration Summary Fetal and Infant Deaths is an annual statistical publication series prepared by the New Zealand Ministry of Health that presents the number of live births, fetal deaths, and infant deaths in the country. Tabulations on causes of death by gender are also included. Births and deaths data come from the National Registry, the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry, death certificates, death registration forms, and pathologists postmortem reports. Keywords Birth asphyxia, Birth certificates, Birth weight, Blood disorders, Brain and nervous system cancers, Cancers, Cardiomyopathies, Chromosomal abnormalities, Chronic kidney diseases, Chronic respiratory diseases, Cleft lip and cleft palate, Congenital anomalies, Congenital heart anomalies, Death certificates, Diarrheal diseases, Digestive diseases, Digestive system malformations, Down's syndrome, Endocrine disorders, Epilepsy, Ethnicity, Falls, Foreign bodies, Gestational age, HIB pneumonia, ICD-10, Infant mortality, Infectious diseases, Inguinal and femoral hernia, Intestinal infectious diseases, Leukemia, Live births, Lower respiratory infections, Maternal age, Meningitis, Meningococcal meningitis, Metabolic disorders, Mortality, Musculoskeletal anomalies, Neonatal conditions, Neural tube defects, Neurological conditions, Preterm birth complications, Respiratory infections, Road traffic injuries, Sepsis, Stillbirths, Stroke, Sudden infant death syndrome, Suffocation, Unintentional injuries, Urogenital anomalies, Varicella, Whooping cough Citation Contributors Ministry of Health (New Zealand) Publisher Ministry of Health (New Zealand) Publication year 2017 Suggested citation Ministry of Health (New Zealand). New Zealand Fetal and Infant Deaths 2013. Wellington, New Zealand: Ministry of Health (New Zealand), 2017. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 31, 2021