M2. Comparison of Childbearing Patterns between Vital Statistics for Calendar Year 1994 and the June 1995 Current Population Survey Source: U.S. Bureau of Census Internet release date: November 25, 1997 (Percent distribution. Numbers in thousands) ------------------------------------------------------------ CPS July 1994 to June 1995 ---------------------- Characteristic Vital 90 percent statistics confidence 1994 Percent interval ------------------------------------------------------------ Number of births 3,953 3,696 139 Percent distribution 100.0 100.0 (x) AGE 1/ Under 15 years 0.3 0.3 0.7 15 to 19 years 12.8 10.9 1.2 20 to 24 years 25.3 26.0 1.7 25 to 29 years 27.5 26.1 1.7 30 to 34 years 22.9 24.8 1.7 35 years and over 11.1 11.9 1.3 RACE 2/ White 79.0 77.8 1.6 Black 16.1 16.5 1.4 Asian and Pacific Islander 4.0 2.5 0.6 All other race 1.0 3.2 0.7 HISPANIC ORIGIN 3/ Hispanic 17.0 14.3 1.4 Not Hispanic 83.0 85.7 1.4 MARITAL STATUS 4/ Currently married 67.4 73.1 1.7 Unmarried 32.6 26.9 1.7 BIRTH ORDER First birth 41.0 37.7 1.9 Second or higher 59.0 62.3 1.9 ------------------------------------------------------------ Note: Universe for the CPS is women 15 to 44 years old at the time of interview; universe for vital statistics is for all women with births in 1994. 1/ Age at the time of child's birth. Other CPS tables indicate age of women at survey date. 2/ Race of mother. 3/ Vital Statistics distributions based only on births with stated origin of mother. 4/ CPS data refer to marital status of women at the time of interview and include as currently married approximately 1.8 percent of women never married at the time of their first birth who subsequently married by the time of the interview. Vital Statistics data refer to marital status at the time of the birth. Source: Vital Statistics are from the Advance Report of Final Natality Statistics, 1994, Vol. 44, N0.11, June 24, 1996 and CPS data are from the June Current Population Survey, 1995 FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact: Fertility and Family Branch 301-457-2449