TABLE F2. REPORTED INDUCED TERMINATIONS OF PREGNANCY
AND PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION,
BY CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENT AND RACE
PROCEDURES PERFORMED IN MISSISSIPPI, 1999
NUMBER PERCENT
NON- UNK. NON-
CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENT TOTAL WHITE WHITE RACE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
TOTAL 3,878 1,060 2,810 8 100.0 100.0 100.0
MISSISSIPPI RESIDENT 3,696 978 2,710 8 95.3 92.3 96.4
NONRESIDENT 182 82 100 0 4.7 7.7 3.6
BORDER STATE 168 77 91 0 4.3 7.3 3.2
OTHER STATE 14 5 9 0 0.4 0.5 0.3
MARITAL STATUS
MARRIED 557 242 312 3 14.4 22.8 11.1
NOT MARRIED 3,313 816 2,492 5 85.4 77.0 88.7
UNKNOWN 8 2 6 0 0.2 0.2 0.2
EDUCATION (COMPLETED YEARS)
0-6 YEARS 12 6 6 0 0.3 0.6 0.2
7-9 YEARS 161 64 96 1 4.2 6.0 3.4
10, 11 YEARS 430 149 281 0 11.1 14.0 10.0
12 YEARS 1,226 318 906 2 31.6 30.0 32.2
1-3 YEARS COLLEGE 1,459 351 1,105 3 37.6 33.1 39.3
4 OR MORE YEARS COLLEGE 536 155 380 1 13.8 14.6 13.5
UNKNOWN 54 17 36 1 1.4 1.6 1.3
NUMBER OF LIVING CHILDREN
NONE 1,364 500 863 1 35.2 47.2 30.7
ONE 1,262 308 950 4 32.5 29.0 33.8
TWO 825 179 644 2 21.3 16.9 22.9
THREE 299 58 240 1 7.7 5.5 8.5
FOUR 89 13 76 0 2.3 1.2 2.7
FIVE OR MORE 39 2 37 0 1.0 0.2 1.3
UNKNOWN 0 0 0 0 - - -
NUMBER OF PREVIOUS
INDUCED TERMINATIONS
NONE 2,647 765 1,876 6 68.2 72.2 66.8
ONE 931 230 700 1 24.0 21.7 24.9
TWO 229 50 178 1 5.9 4.7 6.3
THREE OR MORE 70 14 56 0 1.8 1.3 2.0
UNKNOWN 1 1 0 0 * 0.1 -
* LESS THAN 0.06 PERCENT.
