{"id":1679,"date":"2013-09-06T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2013-09-06T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:06:27","slug":"preliminary-birth-data-for-2012-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/09\/06\/1679\/","title":{"rendered":"Preliminary Birth Data for 2012 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS released a new report called\u00a0<a title=\"Births: Preliminary Data for 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr62\/nvsr62_03.pdf\"><em>Births: Preliminary Data for 2012<\/em><\/a> that looks at\u00a0births in the United States. U.S. data on births are shown by age, live-birth order, race, and Hispanic origin of mother. Data on marital status, cesarean delivery, preterm births, and low birthweight are also presented. <strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The preliminary number of births for the United States in 2012 was 3,952,937, essentially unchanged (not statistically significant) from 2011; the general fertility rate was 63.0 births per 1,000 women age 15-44 years, down only slightly from 2011, after declining nearly 3 percent a year from 2007 through 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The number of births and fertility rate either declined or were unchanged for most race and Hispanic origin groups from 2011 to 2012; however, both the number of births and the fertility rate for Asian or Pacific Islander women rose in 2012 (7 percent and 4 percent, respectively).<\/li>\n<li>The birth rate for teenagers 15-19 years was down 6 percent in 2012 (29.4 births per 1,000 teenagers 15-19 years), yet another historic low for the nation, with rates declining for younger and older teenagers and for nearly all race and Hispanic origin groups.<\/li>\n<li>The birth rate for women in their early twenties also declined in 2012, to a new record low of 83.1 births per 1,000 women. \u2022 Birth rates for women in their thirties rose in 2012, as did the birth rate for women in their early forties. \u2022 The birth rate for women in their late forties was unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>The nonmarital birth rate declined in 2012 (to 45.3 birth per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44), whereas the number of births to unmarried women rose 1 percent and the percentage of births to unmarried women was\u00a0unchanged (at 40.7 percent). \u2022 The cesarean delivery rate for the United States was unchanged in 2012 at 32.8 percent.<\/li>\n<li>The preterm birth rate fell for the sixth straight year in 2012 to 11.54 percent.<\/li>\n<li>The low birthweight rate also declined in 2012, to 7.99 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS released a new report called\u00a0Births: Preliminary Data for 2012 that looks at\u00a0births in the United States. U.S. data on births are shown by age, live-birth order, race, and Hispanic origin of mother. Data on marital status, cesarean delivery, preterm births, and low birthweight are also presented. Key Findings from the Report: The preliminary number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53749],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}