TABLE A8.  LIVE BIRTHS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY WHETHER MOTHER RECEIVED PRENATAL CARE,
TIME DURING PREGNANCY CARE BEGAN, AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1998

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

TOTAL                 42,917   22,950   19,967     100.0     100.0     100.0

NO PRENATAL CARE         505       98      407       1.2       0.4       2.0

SOME PRENATAL CARE    42,207   22,772   19,435      98.3      99.2      97.3
  FIRST TRIMESTER     34,388   20,412   13,976      80.1      88.9      70.0
  SECOND TRIMESTER     6,552    2,045    4,507      15.3       8.9      22.6
  THIRD TRIMESTER      1,133      277      856       2.6       1.2       4.3
  UNKNOWN MONTH          134       38       96       0.3       0.2       0.5

UNKNOWN WHETHER ANY                                                         
  PRENATAL CARE          205       80      125       0.5       0.3       0.6





TABLE A9.  LIVE BIRTHS AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY MATURITY AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 1998

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

TOTAL                   42,917   22,950   19,967     100.0     100.0     100.0

IMMATURE ONLY**          1,675      666    1,009       3.9       2.9       5.0
PREMATURE ONLY**         3,943    1,771    2,172       9.2       7.7      10.9
BOTH IMMATURE AND                                                             
  PREMATURE              2,671      991    1,680       6.2       4.3       8.4

TOTAL IMMATURE           4,346    1,657    2,689      10.1       7.2      13.5
TOTAL PREMATURE          6,614    2,762    3,852      15.4      12.0      19.3
TOTAL IMMATURE AND/OR                                                         
  PREMATURE              8,289    3,428    4,861      19.3      14.9      24.3

NEITHER IMMATURE NOR                                                          
  PREMATURE**           34,628   19,522   15,106      80.7      85.1      75.6

 * 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.