TABLE A6. LIVE BIRTHS TO UNMARRIED MOTHERS
AND PERCENT OF TOTAL LIVE BIRTHS IN SPECIFIED GROUP,
BY AGE AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1998
NUMBER PERCENT
AGE OF NON- NON-
MOTHER TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
TOTAL 19,500 4,680 14,820 45.4 20.4 74.2
UNDER 15 284 27 257 99.6 96.4 100.0
15-19 6,694 1,763 4,931 80.5 55.0 96.6
20-24 7,669 1,705 5,964 54.2 24.9 81.6
25-29 3,032 687 2,345 27.6 10.0 57.5
30-34 1,206 323 883 19.5 7.8 42.4
35-39 504 148 356 19.8 9.1 38.2
40-44 106 24 82 24.4 10.1 41.4
45-49 2 1 1 14.3 9.1 33.3
UNKNOWN 3 2 1
TABLE A7. LIVE BIRTHS, PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION, FERTILITY RATES, AND
MEDIAN AGE OF MOTHER, BY TOTAL-BIRTH ORDER AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1998
MEDIAN AGE
NUMBER PERCENT FERTILITY RATE** OF MOTHER
TOTAL-BIRTH NON- NON- NON- NON-
ORDER* TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
TOTAL 42,917 22,950 19,967 100.0 100.0 100.0 68.2 62.9 75.6 24.5 26.0 22.8
FIRST 15,023 8,285 6,738 35.0 36.1 33.7 23.9 22.7 25.5 21.1 22.9 19.7
SECOND 13,283 7,449 5,834 31.0 32.4 29.2 21.1 20.4 22.1 24.7 26.2 22.9
THIRD 8,044 4,209 3,835 18.7 18.3 19.2 12.8 11.5 14.5 26.5 28.2 24.5
FOURTH 3,654 1,732 1,922 8.5 7.5 9.6 5.8 4.7 7.3 27.6 29.3 26.0
FIFTH 1,609 737 872 3.7 3.2 4.4 2.6 2.0 3.3 29.0 30.4 28.0
SIXTH 666 277 389 1.6 1.2 1.9 1.0 0.8 1.5 29.3 30.9 28.2
SEVENTH 288 114 174 0.7 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.3 0.6 31.5 33.6 30.2
EIGHTH 153 58 95 0.4 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.4 32.2 34.3 31.5
NINTH 73 29 44 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 32.2 36.0 30.9
TENTH & OVER 82 35 47 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 35.4 37.2 34.3
UNKNOWN 42 25 17 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
* INCLUDES ALL LIVE BIRTHS PLUS ALL FETAL DEATHS REGARDLESS OF LENGTH OF GESTATION.
** LIVE BIRTHS PER 1,000 FEMALES 15-44 YEARS OF AGE.
