Table 6_1_1-2b

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 6_1_1.2b
Women who completed a pregnancy in the last 12 months who received prenatal care in the first trimester, by ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		83.9	0.0	85.8	0.0	88.7	0.0	76.5	0.1	77.6	0.1
Mother's age	Under 15	47.9	0.8	45.0	0.9	52.4	1.7	42.7	1.2	53.5	1.3
	15–19	70.8	0.1	71.9	0.1	76.3	0.1	66.7	0.2	68.6	0.2
	20–24	78.9	0.0	80.3	0.1	83.2	0.1	74.9	0.1	75.1	0.1
	25–29	86.0	0.0	87.9	0.0	90.2	0.0	80.0	0.1	79.7	0.1
	30–34	89.4	0.0	91.0	0.0	92.9	0.0	82.3	0.2	82.4	0.1
	35 and over	88.7	0.0	90.1	0.1	92.0	0.1	80.5	0.2	82.1	0.1
Mother's education,^a age 20 and over	Less than high school	72.8	0.1	71.2	0.1	73.3	0.1	68.1	0.2	73.9	0.1
	High school graduate	82.0	0.0	82.6	0.1	85.5	0.1	76.0	0.1	80.4	0.1
	At least some college	91.2	0.0	91.7	0.0	93.2	0.0	84.6	0.1	86.9	0.1
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	84.4	0.0	86.5	0.0	89.5	0.0	76.8	0.1	78.3	0.1
	Large central metro	84.0	0.0	85.4	0.0	90.1	0.1	75.8	0.1	81.5	0.1
	Large fringe metro	86.2	0.0	88.6	0.0	90.9	0.0	78.4	0.1	75.5	0.1
	Medium metro	83.7	0.1	86.0	0.1	88.5	0.1	76.9	0.2	75.6	0.1
	Small metro	82.5	0.1	85.0	0.1	87.2	0.1	76.8	0.2	68.2	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	81.5	0.1	83.3	0.1	85.6	0.1	74.1	0.3	66.4	0.3
	Noncore (nonmetro)	81.2	0.1	82.3	0.1	84.9	0.1	74.2	0.3	67.3	0.4

^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.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 6_1_1-2b: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_1_1-2b.html