Table 6_1_2-1

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_2.1
Live-born infants with low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams), United States, 1998 and 2005
Population group		2005			1998
Population group		Number	Percent	SE	Number	Percent	SE
Total		338,565	8.2	0.0	298,208	7.6	0.0
Mother's age	Under 15	892	13.3	0.4	1,241	13.1	0.3
	15–19	41,525	10.0	0.0	46,107	9.5	0.0
	20–24	86,321	8.3	0.0	72,449	7.5	0.0
	25–29	83,247	7.4	0.0	71,960	6.7	0.0
	30–34	71,707	7.5	0.0	62,075	7.0	0.0
	35 and over	54,873	9.2	0.0	44,376	8.7	0.0
Mother's race	American Indian/Alaska Native	3,293	7.4	0.1	2,734	6.8	0.1
	Asian/Pacific Islander	18,422	8.0	0.1	12,766	7.4	0.1
	Black	85,884	13.6	0.0	79,484	13.0	0.0
	White	230,966	7.2	0.0	203,224	6.5	0.0
Mother's ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	67,796	6.9	0.0	47,295	6.4	0.0
	Non-Hispanic, all races	268,249	8.6	0.0	247,491	7.8	0.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	81,674	14.0	0.0	78,012	13.2	0.0
	Non-Hispanic, White	166,101	7.3	0.0	154,596	6.6	0.0
Gender	Male	160,591	7.6	0.0	141,262	7.0	0.0
Gender	Female	177,974	8.8	0.0	156,946	8.2	0.0
Mother's education,^a age 20 and over	Less than high school	36,077	8.5	0.0	45,365	8.4	0.0
	High school graduate	63,456	8.6	0.0	86,995	7.9	0.0
	At least some college	99,495	7.3	0.0	113,323	6.5	0.0
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	286,043	8.2	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Large central metro	111,622	8.4	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Large fringe metro	75,004	7.8	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Medium metro	68,057	8.2	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Small metro	31,360	8.1	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	32,630	8.3	0.0	DNA	DNA	DNA
	Noncore (nonmetro)	19,892	8.4	0.1	DNA	DNA	DNA

^a Education data are for persons age 20 and over. The 2005 data 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, and are not directly comparable to those of previous years.

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

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

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_2-1: 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_2-1.html