Table 6_1_4-2b

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_4.2b
Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, by ethnicity, United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		15.1	0.6	16.9	0.7	11.7	0.7	39.2	2.6	9.6	1.0
Mother's age	Under 20	7.4	1.3	7.9	1.7	*	*	*	*	*	*
	20–24	10.7	1.0	12.7	1.3	10.7	1.4	19.6	3.2	*	*
	25–29	11.8	1.0	13.4	1.3	7.5	1.1	39.9	5.3	*	*
	30–34	12.8	1.2	12.9	1.3	8.3	1.2	49.8	7.3	12.9	2.6
	35 and over	38.0	2.5	40.7	2.9	29.2	2.8	122.6	14.3	26.6	5.0
Mother's education,^a age 20 and over	Less than high school	22.1	3.2	23.1	4.5	*	*	*	*	*	*
	High school graduate	24.3	2.4	27.0	2.8	20.1	2.8	54.3	8.4	*	*
	At least some college	11.3	1.2	11.0	1.2	6.9	1.1	39.4	6.7	*	*
Residence location^b	Metropolitan	15.1	0.7	17.2	0.8	11.3	0.8	40.0	2.8	9.5	1.0
	Large central metro	17.1	1.1	21.8	1.6	11.9	1.6	43.4	4.1	9.3	1.4
	Large fringe metro	13.6	1.2	13.8	1.3	9.5	1.3	39.1	5.6	13.1	2.7
	Medium metro	14.8	1.3	17.0	1.6	14.0	1.7	34.3	5.8	*	*
	Small metro	12.4	1.8	13.8	2.1	9.6	1.9	*	*	*	*
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	16.0	2.0	16.8	2.2	14.1	2.2	*	*	*	*
	Noncore (nonmetro)	13.0	2.3	13.0	2.5	11.6	2.5	*	*	*	*

^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.

* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 6_1_4-2b: 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_4-2b.html