{"id":4185,"date":"2018-04-18T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2018-04-18T09:15:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:15:15","slug":"asian-american-mothers-maternal-characteristics-by-maternal-place-of-birth-and-asian-subgroup-united-states-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/04\/18\/4185\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian American Mothers: Maternal Characteristics by Maternal Place of Birth and Asian Subgroup, United States, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Anne K. Driscoll, Ph.D., Statistician and Lead Author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr67\/nvsr67_02.pdf\">Asian American Mothers: Maternal Characteristics by Maternal Place of Birth and Asian Subgroup, United States, 2016<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: <\/strong>What do you feel was the most interesting finding in your report?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AD<\/strong><\/em>: Although Asian mothers as a groups differ from other mothers on the characteristics analyzed, they are a heterogeneous group; birthplace and Asian subgroup are key sources of that heterogeneity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong>What countries of origin do Asian-Indian mothers come from?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>AD:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Asian Indian refers to people from India (i.e., to distinguish between people from India and Native Americans\/ American Indians).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q: <\/strong>How do we explain the significant difference between unmarried childbearing among Asian women vs. the rest of the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>AD<\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong>It is likely that the difference is related to differences in educational attainment and maternal age between Asian women and other women, as well as to other factors not measured here.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong>How do the high education levels among Asian mothers compare to U.S. mothers of other races?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>AD<\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong>Asian mothers have the highest education levels of any race\/Hispanic origin group; the percent with at least a bachelor\u2019s degree is roughly 50% higher than that of non-Hispanic white mothers, the group with the second highest education level.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q:\u00a0<\/strong>Any other significant findings you\u2019d like to mention about your study?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>AD<\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong>Asian mothers, both those born in and outside the US, were more likely to be age 30 and over and less likely to be teen mothers than other groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for Anne K. Driscoll, Ph.D., Statistician and Lead Author of \u201cAsian American Mothers: Maternal Characteristics by Maternal Place of Birth and Asian Subgroup, United States, 2016&#8221; Q: What do you feel was the most interesting finding in your report? AD: Although Asian mothers as a groups differ from other mothers on the characteristics analyzed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62225,47309,63678],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185"}],"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=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}