TABLE A8.  LIVE BIRTHS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY WHETHER MOTHER RECEIVED PRENATAL CARE,
TIME DURING PREGNANCY CARE BEGAN, AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1997

                                                                            
                                NUMBER                      PERCENT         
PRENATAL CARE AND                         NON-                          NON-
TIME CARE BEGAN        TOTAL    WHITE    WHITE     TOTAL     WHITE     WHITE

TOTAL                 41,527   22,021   19,506     100.0     100.0     100.0

NO PRENATAL CARE         548      105      443       1.3       0.5       2.3

SOME PRENATAL CARE    40,856   21,867   18,989      98.4      99.3      97.4
  FIRST TRIMESTER     33,098   19,579   13,519      79.7      88.9      69.3
  SECOND TRIMESTER     6,505    1,969    4,536      15.7       8.9      23.2
  THIRD TRIMESTER      1,150      295      855       2.8       1.3       4.4
  UNKNOWN MONTH          103       24       79       0.2       0.1       0.4

UNKNOWN WHETHER ANY                                                         
  PRENATAL CARE          123       49       74       0.3       0.2       0.4






TABLE A9.  LIVE BIRTHS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY MATURITY AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1997

                                                                              
                                  NUMBER                      PERCENT         
                                            NON-                          NON-
MATURITY*                TOTAL    WHITE    WHITE     TOTAL     WHITE     WHITE

TOTAL                   41,527   22,021   19,506     100.0     100.0     100.0

IMMATURE ONLY**          1,552      616      936       3.7       2.8       4.8
PREMATURE ONLY**         3,697    1,544    2,153       8.9       7.0      11.0
BOTH IMMATURE AND                                                             
  PREMATURE              2,641    1,005    1,636       6.4       4.6       8.4

TOTAL IMMATURE           4,193    1,621    2,572      10.1       7.4      13.2
TOTAL PREMATURE          6,338    2,549    3,789      15.3      11.6      19.4
TOTAL IMMATURE AND/OR                                                         
  PREMATURE              7,890    3,165    4,725      19.0      14.4      24.2

NEITHER IMMATURE NOR                                                          
  PREMATURE**           33,637   18,856   14,781      81.0      85.6      75.8

 * IMMATURE - BIRTHWEIGHT LESS THAN 5 1/2 POUNDS (2,500 GRAMS); PREMATURE -   
   GESTATION LESS THAN 37 WEEKS (CALCULATED BY SUBTRACTING THE DATE OF THE    
   LAST NORMAL MENSTRUAL PERIOD PRIOR TO DELIVERY FROM THE DATE OF BIRTH).    

** BIRTHS CLASSIFIED AS IMMATURE ONLY OR AS PREMATURE ONLY INCLUDE SOME FOR   
   WHICH THE OTHER MEASUREMENT WAS UNKNOWN.  THOSE CLASSIFIED AS NEITHER      
   IMMATURE NOR PREMATURE INCLUDE SOME FOR WHICH ONE OR BOTH MEASUREMENTS     
   WERE UNKNOWN.