Vital and Health Statistics; Series 16, No. 7
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Vital and Health Statistics Advance Data From Vital and Health Statistics: Numbers 61-70 Series 16: Compilations of Advance Data From Vital and Health Statistics No, 7 Data in this ,report from health and demographic surveys present statistics by age and other variables on ambulatory medical care; selected demographic characteristics of teenage wives and mothers; expected principal source of payment for hospital discharges; health practices among adults; and utilization of short-stay hospitals in the treatment of mental disorders, Estimates are based on the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States, These reports were originally published in 1980 and 1981, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUfvfAN SERVICES Public Heaith Service Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Heaith Statistics Hyattsville, Maryland December 1993 DHHS Publication No. (PHS] 94-1866 .. -- Copyright information All material appearing in this report is in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated. Suggested citation National Center for Health Statistics. Advance data from vital and health statistics: nos 61–70. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Stat 16(7). 1993. National Center for Health Statistics Manning Feinleib, M.D., Dr. P.H., Director Jack R. Anderson, Depup Director Jacob J. Feldman, Ph.D., Associate Director for Aru+sis and Epidemiology Gail F. Fisher, Ph.D., Associate Director for Planning and lWramural Programs Peter L. Hurley, Associate Director for J%al and Health Statistics Systems Robert A. Israel, Associate Director for International Statistics Stephen E. Nieberding, Associate Director for Management Charles J. Rothwell, Associate Director for Data Processing and Services Monroe G. Sirken, Ph.D., Associate Director for Research and Methodology David L. Larson, Assistant DirectoL Atlanta Selected Demographic Characteristics of Teenage Wives and Mothers . ... No. 61 Expected Principal Source of Payment for Hospital Discharges: United States, 1977. No. 62 Office Visits for Male Genitourinary Conditions: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey United States, 1977-78 . No. 63 Health Practices Among Adults: United States, 1977 . No. 64 Cough as the Reason for Office Visits, National Ambulatory MedicaI Care Survey United States, 1977-78 . No. 65 1979 Summary National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey . No. 66 Headache as the Reason for Office Visits, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey United States, 1977-78 . No, 67 Stroke Survivors Among the Noninstitutionalized Population 20 Years of Age and Oven United States, 1977 . No. 68 Office Visits for Preventive Care, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey United States, 1977-78 . No. 69 Utilization of Short-Stay Hospitals in the Treatment of MentaI Disorders: 1974-1978 . No. 70 FRCWl VITAL & HEAL77i STATISTICS OF THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS U..S.DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH . pub;IC Health Serwce AND HUMAN SERVICES Office of Health Research. Starmms, and TechrIoIoqv ~m~ 61 ● *p-f=r ~. ~9@3 Selected Demographic Characteristics of Teenage Wives and Mothers a INTRODUCTION 1976, from 6.6 million to 10.4 million. Re- flecting this increase in the number of young In the United States in 1976, about 1,122,000 women, the annual numbers of teenagemarriages women 15-19 years of age were married, di- ako increased over the same period. vorced, widowed, or separated; of these, 480,000 However, the rates for teenage marriagesand were mothers of at least one child. Another births did not increase. Data from the marriage 332,000 women in this age group were never registration system (table 1) show that of all married mothers who had offspring Iiving with brides marrying for the firsttime in 1976 about them. The 1,122,000 ever married women 15-19 38 percent (or 571,000) were under 20 years of accounted for about 11 percent, and the 332,000 age. In 1960 teenage brides had accounted for never married mothers, about 3 percent of the 48 percent (or 482,000) of alI first marriages. 10.4 milIion women 15-19 years of age in 1976. From 1940 through 1960, birth rates to This report provides the first and most recent women 15-19 years of age (births per 1,000 national estimates of the current contraceptive women 15-19) increased from 54.1 to 89.1. practice and famiIy background of teenage wives From 1960 through 1976, however, this rate and mothers and their husbands. It also compares decreased from 89.1 to 53.5, a 40 percent them with their counterparts 20-44 years of age reduction, and approximately the 1940 leveL m terms of these and other selected characteris- Among women 20 years of age and older, how- tics. These esdrnates are based on a special ever, birth rates declined even more fkom 1960 ardysis of data from Cycle II of the National through 1976.X As a resuk of this differential Suxvey of FamiIy Growth (NS FG), conducted in deeliie and the increase in the number of 1976 by the NationaI Center for Health Statis- women 15-19 years of age, births to teenage tics. mothers accounted for 18 percent of dl births A number of trends have prompted recent m 1976, compared with 14 percent in 1960. concern about teenage marriage and childbearing. Since 1976, the birth rates for women 15-19 These trends include the increasing number of have remained at about the same levels. women 15-19 years of age (a result of thehigh The data for this report were coflected by birth rate during the late 1950’s), the increasing means of personaI intemiews with a multistage number of teenage marriages, and the increasing area probability sample of women 1544 years proportion of all births occurring to teenage of age in the household population of the con- mothers. terminous United States. Women were eligible The U.S. Bureau of the Census has reported for inelusion in the sample if they were eurre@y that the number of women 15-19 years of age married, previously marrie~ or never married increased by 57 percent from 1960 through but ivith offipring presendy living in the house- hold. This report does not include the relatively ‘This l’CpOrSW* prepared by Sara .Mtian, ~.A., snd number of teenage mothers under 15 years and WiUiaxn D. Mosher, Ph.D., Division of VW Sta- of age.z Stmikdy, never manied teenage mothers tistics. whose offspxing were not Iiving with them were 2 Table 1. Nunlmr of first marriages and Percent distribution bv age of brido and ●m of ~m at first marriage: Unitad Stetaa. 1980 and 1976 6ride Groom Age 1976 1960 1976 1980 Nu* of first muriagaa in thoueend% .. ... —- .. ..—.— 1.491 I 1,015I 1,460I 1,026 Age et first marriage Pafcant distribution All qa% .-- —. ——”..—”” —..-—.-----—-— — 100.0 100.0I lm.o I 100.0 Under 18 years. ....... ... ... ... ...... ...... ... .. ....... ... ... ... .... ..........—--” 11.9 15.1 21 1.8 16-19 years ................. ...... ...m.... .. .. ......... ...... ................ ....... ... ......... ...... .. 25.4 32.4 15.4 15.2 20 years and over ... .. ....”.-. ..........”.............”.. ......... ...... .. ..... .......... ... .... 61.6 52.5 82.5 83.0 20 years ..... .. ...... ... .. ... .... .... .... ... .... ... ..... .. ............ 12.1 11.0 10.9 9.1 1 I I I SOURCES: National Center for Heaith Statistics: Vital StatLrtics o/ tfre United States 1960, vol. III, .Uamhge and Divorce. public Heatth Service. Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964. table 2-6. Nationat Center for Heat!h Statiatica: First marriages, United State& 1968-1976, by 8. F. W:lson and E. Hume. Vital and Heafrh Shrtfrtics. Series 21-No. 35. DHEW Pub. No. (PHS) 79-1913. Public HeaItlr Service. Washiocton. U.S. Government Printinrm ~+~--------- Sept. 1979, tables B and C and unpublished tebulatioks. not incIuded in the sample. (Approximately 7 this group is convenient for the purposes of percent of out-of-wedlock babies born to women this report-principally, to highlight some of the aged 15-19 were not Iiving with their mothets characteristics of teenage wives and mothers. It in 1976. The comparable figure for 1971 was shotdd not necessarily be inferred that teenage about 14 percent. It should be noted, however, maniage or childbearing is the only or the prin- that these percents are based on only 148 cases apal cause of differences between teenagers and in 1976 and 259 cases in 1971 and refer only to the older women described. These differences out-of-wedlock babies born horn first concep- may be the result of such things as their ages at tions. They should, therefore, be interpreted intemiew or the social customs prevailing when with some cautions ) they were married or when they had their chiL From January through September 1976, dren. 3,009 black women and 5,602 women of other races were intemievved in the NSFG. Of these, 448 women were 15-19 years of age. This report CHARACTERISTICS OF EVER MARRIED is based on information provided by these TEENAGE WOMEN AND THEt R HUSBANDS teenage women, of whom 193 were black and 255 were of races other than black. The infor- Tables 2 and 3 present selected characteristics mation from these women was inflated to pro- of the 1,122,000 ever married teenage women vide natiomd estimates of these statistics. and their husbands and of the 30,725,000 ever Because they are based on a sample, estimates married women 2044 years of age and their from the NSFG are subject to sampling error. current or last husbands, in the United States in Fufier discussion of sarnpfing error, compari- 1976. (k this xepo~ for convenience, the ever sons with other dat~ and definitions of selected maxried teenage women are referred to as terms can be found in the Technical Notes. “teenage wives,” although a very small propor- The statistics on women 2044 years of age tion of them were no longer currently married are shown in this report ordy for purposes of at the time of rntemiew.