Births to Teenage Mothers and Unmarried Women and Births with Low Birth Weight--States and Island Ar

Overview

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.

A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

The tables that were changed (this is table 87):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 66 rows and 23 columns.

Represents registered births. Excludes births to nonresidents of the United States. Based on 100 percent of births in all States and the District of Columbia. 2005 data are preliminary and based on a substantial proportion of vital records for that year. See Appendix III

Footnotes

  1. Defined as mothers who are 19 years of age or younger.
  2. Less than 2,500 grams (5 pounds-8 ounces).

License

This dataset was prepared by the government and is therefore in the public domain. There are no restrictions upon its use.