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Tabulated State Data
New Report Releases
Estimated
Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1990-2000: An Update
Fact Sheet
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Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR Volume 52, Number 23. 10 pp. (PHS)
2004 -1120
6/2004
Trends
in Characteristics of Births by State: 1990, 1995, and
2000-2002 (5 /2004)
Fact Sheet
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Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Volume 52, Number 19. 152pp. (PHS) 2004-1120
Reproduction Rates for
1990-2002 and Intrinsic Rates for 2000-2001: United States .
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Volume 52, Number 17. 12 pp. (PHS)
2004 -1120
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Births:
Final Data for 2002 (Fact Sheet)
H oja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Report 52 ,
No. 10 . 114 pp. (PHS) 2004 -1120.
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Revised
pregnancy rates, 1990-97, and new rates for
1998-99: United States .
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Report 52 ,
No. 7 . 15 pp. (PHS) 2004 -1120.
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Revised
Birth and Fertility Rates for the 1990s and New Rates for Hispanic
Populations, 2000 and 2001: United States
(Fact Sheet)
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Report 51,
No. 12. 94 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120.
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Births:
Preliminary Data for 2002 .
NVSR Vol. 51, No. 11. 20 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120.
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Revised
Birth and Fertility Rates for the United States, 2000 and 2001.
NVSR Vol. 51, No. 4. 19 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120.
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Births:
Final Data for 2001 . NVSR Vol. 51, No. 2. 103 pp.
(PHS) 2003-1120.
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Mean
Age of Mother, 1970-2000 . NVSR Vol. 51, No. 1. 14 pp.
(PHS) 2003-1120.
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Births:
Preliminary Data for 2001 . NVSR Vol. 50,
No. 10. 20 pp.
(PHS) 2002-1120.
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1.3 MB
Teen
Births in the United States: State Trends, 1991-2000, an Update .
NVSR Vol. 50, No. 9. 4 pp.
(PHS) 2002-1120.
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Births:
Final Data for 2000 . NVSR Vol. 50, No. 5. 104 pp. (PHS) 2002-1120.
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Trends
in Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean, 1991-99 .
NVSR Volume 49, No. 13. 15 pp.
(PHS) 2002-1120.
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Trends
in Spina Bifida and Anencephalus in the United States, 1991-2001
Births
to Teenagers in the United States, 1940-2000.
Vol. 49, No. 10. 24 pp. (PHS)
2001-1120.
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Smoking
during pregnancy in the 1990s. Vol. 49, No. 7.
15 pp.
(PHS)
2001-1120.
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Births,
Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for January-December
2000. Vol. 49, No. 6. 8 pp.
(PHS)
2001-1120.
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Births: Preliminary Data for 2000. Vol. 49, No. 5. 20 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120.
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1 MB
Trends I n Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97:
An Update. Vol. 49, No.
4. 10 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120.
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Births:
Final Data for 1999. Vol. 49, No. 1. 102 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120.
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Nonmarital
Childbearing in the United States, 1940-99.
Vol. 48, No. 16. 39 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120.
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KB
Variations in Teenage Birth Rates, 1991-98: National and
State Trends. Vol. 48, No. 6. 14 pp. (PHS) 2000-1120.
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Trends in Pregnancies and
Pregnancy Rates by Outcome: Estimates for the United States, 1976-96. Series 21,
No. 56.
60 pp. (PHS) 2000-1934
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348 KB
News
Releases and Fact Sheets
Teen
Birth Rate Continues to Decline; African-American Teens Show Sharpest Drop --Final
2002 United States Birth Data Now Available (October
31 , 2003)
U.S.
Pregnancy Rate Down from Peak; Births and Abortions on the Decline (October
31 , 2003)
New
Report Revises Birth and Fertility Rates for the 1990s Uses 2000 Census
Population Estimates to Improve Accuracy (August
4, 2003)
U.S.
Birth Rate Reaches Record Low --Births to Teens Continue
12-Year Decline; Cesarean Deliveries Reach All-Time High (June
25, 2002)
American
Women Are Waiting to Begin Families; Average Age at First Birth up More
Than 3 Years From 1970 to 2000 --Mean Age of Mother,
1970-2000 (December
11, 2002)
HHS
Report Shows Teen Birth Rate Falls to New Record Low in 2001 --Births:
Preliminary Data for 2001. (6/6/2002)
Teen
Birth Rates Decline in all States during the 1990s --Teenage
Births in the United States: State Trends, 1991-2000, an Update. (5/30/2002)
Women
Are Having More Children, New Report Shows Teen Births Continue to Decline --Births:
Final Data for 2000. (2/12/2002)
New
CDC Report Tracks Trends in Cesarean Births and VBACs during the 1990s --Trends
in Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean, 1991-99. (12/27/2001)
New
CDC Report Tracks Trends in Teen Births from 1940-2000 --Births
to Teenagers in the United States, 1940-2000 (9/25/2001)
Smoking
During Pregnancy--Rates Drop Steadily in the 1990's, but among Teen
Mothers Progress Has Stalled --Smoking during pregnancy in the
1990s (8/28/2001)
New
CDC Reports Shows Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low;
U.S. Births Top 4 Million in 2000 --Births: Preliminary Data
for
2000 (7/24/2001)
Teen
Pregnancy Rate Reaches a Record Low in 1997 --Trends in Pregnancy Rates for the United
States, 1976-97: An Update (6/12/2001)
Higher
Order Multiple Births Drop for First Time in a Decade --Births:
Final Data for 1999 (4/17/2001)
Attendant, Place, and Timing, and Use
of Obstetric Interventions of U.S. Births Change Over Past Decade (12/2/1999)
New Guide to Help Local Communities
Establish Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (10/25/1999)
Data
Highlights
Birth
rates by age of mother : United States 1960-99
Figure excerpted from Births: Final Data for 1999
NVSR, Vol. 49, No. 1, Figure 2
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Teen
Pregnancy
Preliminary
number of live-births
Table excerpted from the Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
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Preliminary number of live
births by State
Table excerpted from the Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
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Live Births, Birth rates, and Fertility Rates
Table excerpted from the Report of Final Natality
Statistics, 1999
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Statistical
Tables on Births
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1999,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1998,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1997,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1996 ,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1995 ,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1994,
Part I, Natality
L ive
births, birth rates, fertility rates,
total fertility rates and birth rates for teenagers 15-19 by
age of mother,
United
States, each State and territory
Births: Final Data for
2002, table 10
Live
births by age of mother, live-birth order, and race,
United
States, each State and territory
Births: Final Data for 2002,
table11
Live
births by Hispanic origin of mother and by race for mothers of
non-Hispanic origin: United States, each State
and territory
Births: Final Data for 2002, table 12
Methods
Revised Intercensal
Population Estimates Released
To permit
the calculation of race-specific vital rates for 2000 and beyond and for
revised vital rates for 1991-1999 (using intercensal population
estimates), the National Center for Health Statistics, in collaboration
with the National Cancer Institute and the Census Bureau, is releasing bridged-race
estimates of the U.S. resident population .
Instruction
Manuals
Coding
Instructions for Live Birth Records
Data processing
Public use data
files documentation
2002
Technical Appendix
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2001
Technical Appendix
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1 MB
2000
Technical Appendix
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739 KB
1999
Technical Appendix
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1.9 MB
1998
Technical Appendix
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1997
Technical Appendix
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1996 Natality File
1996 Linked Birth/Infant Death
1995
Natality File
Micro-data
Natality data
(births)
Linked Birth and Infant Death
Maternal and Infant Health Survey
1995-97
Matched Multiple Birth Data Set
Publications
Special reports
National
Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR)
Trends in Twin and
Triplet Births: 1980-97, Vol. 47, No. 24. 20 pp. (PHS) 99-1120
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Trends
in Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97:
An Update. Vol. 49, No.
4. 10 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120.
News Release
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KB
Declines in Teenage Birth
Rates, 1991-98. Vol. 47, No. 26
News Release
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Teenage Birth Rates, Vol. 47, No. 12
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Smoking during pregnancy, NVSR Vol. 47, No. 10
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Monthly Vital Statistics Reports
(MVSR)
Trends in Hispanic Births, MVSR Vol. 46, No. 6s
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Education, MVSR Vol. 45, No. 10s
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Teenage mothers, MVSR Vol. 45, No.
5s
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Cesarean sections, MVSR Vol. 45, No. 11s3)
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Vital and Health Statistics
Series 21 Reports
Trends in Pregnancies and
Pregnancy Rates by Outcome,
Series 21, No. 56
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348 KB
Unmarried mothers,
Series 21, No. 53
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Triplets, Series 21, No. 55
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Other publications
Birth Data Errata
Links to Related Sites
DHHS Fatherhood Initiative
Teenage Pregnancy Links
Links to State Health Departments
Mortality data from the National Vital
Statistics Systems
Reproductive health links
National
Survey of Family Growth
This page last reviewed
July 29, 2004