Receipt of Any Infertility Services, by Women 15-44 Years of Age, by Selected Characteristics: 1995 statistics


						Surgery or	Assisted
Characteristics				Test on		treatment	reproductive
	Number	Any		woman or	Ovulation	for blocked	tech-
	(1,000)	services	Advice	man	drugs	tubes	nology ²

Total	60,201	15.4	6.4	4.2	3.0	1.5	1.0

AGE

15-24 years old	18,002	4.4	1.1	0.2	0.3	0.1	(Z)
25-34 years old	20,758	17.1	6.3	3.7	3.1	1.2	0.8
35-44 years old	21,440	22.9	10.9	8.1	5.2	2.9	2.1

PARITY, AGE, AND MARITAL STATUS

0 births	25,242	6.4	4.6	3.7	2.2	1.1	1.2
15-24 years old	14,113	1.2	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
25-34 years old	7,139	8.7	6.5	4.6	3.0	1.0	1.1
35-44 years old	3,991	20.7	15.5	14.5	8.0	4.8	5.3

Married	5,685	20.9	16.0	13.6	8.3	4.1	4.7
Unmarried	19,558	2.2	1.2	0.8	0.4	0.2	0.1

1 or more births	34,958	21.8	7.7	4.6	3.6	1.8	0.9
15-24 years old	3,889	16.1	3.3	0.3	0.6	0.5
25-34 years old	13,620	21.5	6.2	3.1	3.1	1.3	0.6
35-44 years old	17,449	23.4	9.8	6.7	4.6	2.4	1.4

Married	23,988	24.1	9.2	6.0	4.6	2.1	1.1
Unmarried	10,970	16.8	4.3	1.6	1.3	0.9	0.5

EDUCATION ³

No high school diploma or GED ⁴	5,424	14.9	3.3	2.0	1.2	0.7	0.2
High school diploma or GED	18,169	20.0	7.8	4.9	3.9	2.0	1.1
Some college, no bachelor's degree	12,399	19.4	7.8	5.6	3.3	2.0	1.2
Bachelor's degree or higher	11,748	18.0	10.3	7.1	5.3	1.9	2.2

POVERTY LEVEL INCOME ³

0-149 percent	10,072	16.6	4.8	2.1	1.5	0.9	0.2
0-99 percent	5,992	14.2	4.0	1.7	0.9	0.5	0.1
150-299 percent	14,932	17.9	6.3	3.9	3.1	1.4	0.6
300 percent or higher	22,736	20.3	10.3	7.6	5.3	2.5	2.2

RACE AND HISPANIC ORIGIN

Hispanic	6,702	13.4	4.9	2.4	1.7	0.9	0.6
Non-Hispanic white	42,522	16.3	7.2	4.9	3.5	1.6	1.2
Non-Hispanic black	8,210	13.0	3.8	2.2	1.4	0.9	0.3
Non-Hispanic other	2,767	12.3	5.0	3.9	2.9	1.9	1.4

Z Less than 0.5 percent.
1 Includes services to help get pregnant as well as to help prevent miscarriage.
2 Includes artificial insemination, invitro fertilization (IVF, gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), and other techniques not shown separately.
3 Limited to women 22-44 years of age at time of interiew. The poverty index ratio was calculated by dividing the total family income by the weighted average threshold income of families whose head of household was under 65 years of age, based on the 1994 poverty levels defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
4 GED = General equivalency diploma.

Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Fertility, Family Planning, and Women's Health. New data from the National Survey of Family Growth, Vital Health Stat. 23 (19), 1997. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

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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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