{"id":4189,"date":"2018-04-25T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2018-04-25T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T13:15:24","slug":"4189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/04\/25\/4189\/","title":{"rendered":"Declines in Births to Females Aged 10\u201314 in the United States, 2000\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4091\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/tj-mathews-mug-green-award-2010.jpg?w=120\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TJ Mathews, NCHS Demographer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Questions for T.J. Mathews, M.S., Demographer, Statistician, and Lead Author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db308.pdf\">Declines in Births to Females Aged 10\u201314 in the United States, 2000\u20132016<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Why did you decide to examine trends in births to females aged 10-14 in the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TM<\/em><\/strong>: We have published data on births to females aged 10-14 for decades but only once before have we published data specific to this group. We decided this significant decline was noteworthy and needed publishing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: How have U.S. birth rates to females ages 10-14 changed since 2000?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TM<\/em><\/strong>: The birth rate to females aged 10-14 in the U.S. has declined 78% from 0.9 per 1,000 in 2000 to 0.2 in 2016.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What differences or similarities did you see among race and Hispanic origins in this analysis?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>TM<\/strong><\/em>: From 2000 to 2016, all groups observed declines in the birth rate for this age group. The largest decline was seen for non-Hispanic black females, a decline of 79%. This group had the highest rate in both time periods.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Is there any comparable trend data on U.S. births to females aged 10-14 older than 2000?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TM<\/em><\/strong>: While we didn\u2019t study trends in birth rates to 15-19 year olds in this publication we have been reporting significant declines for this age group over this time period.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: Were there any surprises in the findings from this report?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>TM<\/strong><\/em>: First is the wide range of birth rates for this age by state. Using 2014 to 2016 combined the highest rate was seen in Mississippi, 0.7 per 1,000 while a handful of states had rates as low as 0.1. A second interesting observation is that the majority, \u00a081%, of births to 10-14 years old occurred to those 14 years old.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What is the take home message in this report?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>TM<\/em><\/strong>: Birth and birth rates to females aged 10-14 in the U.S. have declined significantly since 2000. \u00a0Disparities by race and Hispanic origin and by state persist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for T.J. Mathews, M.S., Demographer, Statistician, and Lead Author of \u201cDeclines in Births to Females Aged 10\u201314 in the United States, 2000\u20132016\u201d Q: Why did you decide to examine trends in births to females aged 10-14 in the U.S.? TM: We have published data on births to females aged 10-14 for decades but only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,54842],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189"}],"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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}