Marital Status of Women 15 to 29 Years Old at First Birth,by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1970-74 to 1990-1994 statistics

[Data for 1975-79 to 1990-94 are based on the June 1995 Current Population Survey and are shown for first births to women residing in the United States at the time of their first child's birth. Data for 1970-74 to 1990-94, are based on the June 1980 Current Population Survey, and are for all women regardless of their place of residence at the time of the first birth. Data for Hispanics are from the June 1995 CPS and are for first births to women residing in the United States at the time of their child s birth.


					Percent of
					pre-
					maritally
					pregnant
Percent of		Percent of first births			women
first births					marrying
	Number		Pre-	Post-	before
	of first	Pre-	maritally	maritally	birth of
	births	marital	conceived	conceived	first
	(1,000)	birth	birth	birth	child

ALL WOMEN

1930-34	2,279	8.2	9.5	82.2	53.6
1935-39	3,036	8.5	9.0	82.6	51.4
1940-44	3,982	7.0	7.5	85.5	51.8
1945-49	4,971	7.6	7.9	84.6	50.9
1950-54	5,004	7.9	9.3	82.8	53.9
1955-59	5,173	10.0	10.9	79.1	52.3
1960-64	5,507	10.3	15.5	74.3	60.0
1965-69	5,929	15.1	18.0	66.9	54.4
1970-74	6,438	18.0	17.1	64.8	48.7
1975-79	6,626	25.7	12.0	62.2	31.8
1980-84	6,842	29.6	12.3	58.1	29.4
1985-89	6,364	32.7	10.7	56.5	24.7
1990-94	6,324	40.5	12.3	47.2	23.3

White

1930-34	2,037	5.9	9.2	84.9	61.0
1935-39	2,748	5.6	8.7	85.7	60.6
1940-44	3,592	5.0	6.3	88.6	55.9
1945-49	4,473	5.1	6.7	88.2	56.6
1950-54	4,419	5.0	8.6	86.5	63.4
1955-59	4,494	6.0	10.4	83.6	63.4
1960-64	4,774	6.8	14.2	79.0	67.6
1965-69	5,001	8.8	18.0	73.2	67.1
1970-74	5,376	11.1	17.6	71.4	61.3
1975-79	5,440	18.3	12.9	68.9	40.1
1980-84	5,332	21.3	13.7	65.0	39.1
1985-89	5,089	24.6	12.0	63.4	32.8
1990-94	4,994	32.4	12.9	54.6	28.5

Black

1930-34	216	31.0	11.6	57.4	27.2
1935-39	261	37.9	11.9	50.2	23.8
1940-44	342	27.5	19.0	53.5	40.9
1945-49	428	32.2	18.9	48.8	37.0
1950-54	516	32.6	14.0	53.5	30.0
1955-59	587	40.9	16.0	43.1	28.1
1960-64	635	36.1	24.1	39.8	40.1
1965-69	815	53.6	18.4	28.0	25.6
1970-74	905	59.0	14.5	26.5	19.7
1975-79	981	67.4	6.5	26.1	8.8
1980-84	1,072	71.2	5.6	23.0	7.3
1985-89	1,007	73.3	4.9	21.8	6.3
1990-94	1,016	76.9	8.7	14.4	10.2

HISPANIC ORIGIN ¹

Hispanic

1965-69	293	17.9	10.6	71.5	37.2
1970-74	442	29.6	16.1	54.3	35.2
1975-79	589	32.6	12.2	55.2	27.2
1980-84	632	36.7	9.8	53.5	21.1
1985-89	724	36.0	12.0	52.0	25.0
1990-94	957	40.2	14.2	45.6	26.1

Non-Hispanic

1965-69	5,214	17.2	16.9	65.9	49.6
1970-74	6,055	19.5	14.9	65.6	43.3
1975-79	6,037	25.1	12.0	62.9	32.3
1980-84	6,210	28.9	12.6	58.5	30.4
1985-89	5,640	32.3	10.6	57.1	24.7
1990-94	5,367	40.5	11.9	47.5	22.7

1 People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P23-197. http://148.129.129.31:80/prod/99pubs/p23-197.pdf

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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