NCHS - Percent Distribution of Births to Unmarried Women by Age Group: United States
data.cdc.gov | Last Updated 29 Mar 2022This dataset includes percent distribution of births to unmarried women by age group 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.
This dataset has the following 3 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | year | number | 1982 1988 1995 2002 2014 view top 100 |
| Age Group | age_group | text | 35+ years 30-34 years 20-24 years Less than 20 years 25-29 years view top 100 |
| Percent of Nonmarital Births | percent | number | 0.106 0.36 0.063 0.045 0.048 view top 100 |