NCHS - Birth Rates for Unmarried Women by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: United States

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Center for Health Statistics

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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Center for Health Statistics. NCHS - Birth Rates for Unmarried Women by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: United States. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E243056V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title NCHS - Birth Rates for Unmarried Women by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: United States
Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset includes birth rates for unmarried women by age group, race, and Hispanic origin in the United States since 1970. Methods for collecting information on marital status changed over the reporting period and have been documented in: • Ventura SJ, Bachrach CA. Nonmarital childbearing in the United States, 1940–99. National vital statistics reports; vol 48 no 16. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2000. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_16.pdf. • National Center for Health Statistics. User guide to the 2013 natality public use file. Hyattsville, Maryland: National Center for Health Statistics. 2014. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/VitalStatsOnline.htm. National data on births by Hispanics origin exclude data for Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma in 1989; for New Hampshire and Oklahoma in 1990; for New Hampshire in 1991 and 1992. Information on reporting Hispanic origin is detailed in the Technical Appendix for the 1999 public-use natality data file (see (ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/DVS/natality/Nat1999doc.pdf.) All birth data by race before 1980 are based on race of the child. Starting in 1980, birth data by race are based on race of the mother. Read less
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Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms birth rates; race; ethnicity; hispanic origin; nonmarital; united states; nchs
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