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Birth location =/= mailing address zipcode. Babies are usually born in hospitals, and thus parents from many areas concentrate in one specific building. When yo
by xxbondsxx 15y ago
Birth location =/= mailing address zipcode. Babies are usually born in hospitals, and thus parents from many areas concentrate in one specific building. When you re-distribute these births out to their respective homes around the county, the zip code becomes much more important.
- firemanx 15y agoIn towns like mine, however, 40,000 people share the same zip code with the hospital. I'm sure there are quite a few more town like mine throughout the US.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- dasil003 15y agoOkay, well let's do the math: US pop in 2000: 280,000,000 — US births in 2000: 4,000,000 — US births per day: 10,958 — Fraction of US pop that 40,000 represents: 0.0001428 — Number of births per day for the 40,000: 1.56 That seems inline with the conclusion of the paper. See any mistakes?
- kingkilr 15y agoI used my mailing address zipcode, without even realizing it wasn't my birth zipcode :)
- cpeterso 15y agoWhere are you searching for your zip code and birth date? I couldn't find anything on the Data Privacy Lab site. :\