This dataset includes number of births to unmarried women by age group in the United States since 1940. 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.
This dataset has the following 3 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
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Year | year | number | 1972 2000 2012 2011 1989 view top 100 |
Age Group | age_group | text | Less than 15 years 40+ years 30-34 years 20-24 years 15-19 years view top 100 |
Number of Births | birth_number | number | 9400 2300 19800 3000 3200 view top 100 |