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Download full textVentura, Stephanie J. – NCHS Monthly Vital Statistics Report, 1988
A survey of births of Hispanic parentage in 1985 in 23 states and the District of Columbia, where approximately 92 percent of America's Hispanic population resides, yielded the following statistical information: (1) 372,814 babies were born to Hispanic mothers; (2) nearly two-thirds of the mothers were Mexican; (3) Puerto Rican, Central and South…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Birth Rate, Birth Weight, Cubans
PDF pending restorationVentura, Stephanie J. – NCHS Monthly Vital Statistics Report, 1983
Analysis of Hispanic birth data for 22 states in 1980 showed the following: (1) The fertility rate for Hispanic women was 95.4 births per 1.000 women aged 15-44; this rate was 53 percent higher than the rate for non-Hispanic Whites and five percent higher than for non-Hispanic Blacks. (2) Age-specific birth rates indicated that the fertility of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Birth Weight, Black Population Trends
