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2008 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 6_1_2.4c
Live-born infants with very low birth weight (less than 1,500 grams), by mother's education, United States, 2005
Population group Total Less than high schoola High school graduatea At least some collegea
Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Total 1.5 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.6 0.0 1.3 0.0
Mother's age 20–24 1.5 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.4 0.0
25–29 1.3 0.0 1.3 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.2 0.0
30–34 1.4 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.8 0.0 1.2 0.0
35 and over 1.7 0.0 1.9 0.1 2.3 0.1 1.6 0.0
Mother's race AI/AN 1.2 0.1 1.2 0.1 1.2 0.1 1.1 0.1
API 1.1 0.0 1.2 0.1 1.3 0.1 1.1 0.0
Black 3.2 0.0 3.1 0.1 3.3 0.0 3.1 0.0
White 1.2 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.1 0.0
Mother's ethnicity Hispanic, all races 1.2 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 1.3 0.0
Non-Hispanic, all races 1.6 0.0 2.0 0.0 1.8 0.0 1.3 0.0
Non-Hispanic, Black 3.3 0.0 3.3 0.1 3.5 0.1 3.2 0.0
Non-Hispanic, White 1.2 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.3 0.0 1.0 0.0
Geographic locationb Metropolitan 1.5 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.7 0.0 1.3 0.0
  Large central metro 1.6 0.0 1.4 0.0 1.7 0.0 1.4 0.0
  Large fringe metro 1.4 0.0 1.3 0.0 1.6 0.0 1.3 0.0
  Medium metro 1.5 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.7 0.0 1.3 0.0
  Small metro 1.5 0.0 1.5 0.1 1.6 0.0 1.2 0.0
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 1.4 0.0 1.5 0.1 1.5 0.0 1.2 0.0
Noncore (nonmetro) 1.4 0.0 1.4 0.1 1.5 0.1 1.2 0.0

a Education data are for persons age 20 and over and exclude the following States: FL, ID, KS, KY, NE, NH, NY (not including NYC), PA, SC, TN, TX, and WA, that implemented the 2003 Revisions to the U.S Standard Birth Certificate.

b For more information, see the National Vital Statistics System entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System - Natality.

 

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