NATALITY
Introduction
This
chapter on natality encompasses births to New Jersey residents during
the calendar year 1997. The birth certificate is the source document
for data included in the analysis. New Jersey law requires that the
attending physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife file a certificate
of birth with the Local Registrar within five days of a birth within
the state. Statistics on births to New Jersey residents which occurred
in other states are also included in this report. The inclusion of these
data is made possible through the auspices of the Vital Statistics Cooperative
Program, which encourages the exchange of information on vital events
between the states of occurrence and residence.
The format
of the birth certificate was revised and expanded in 1989. One of the
major changes was the addition of check-off items regarding a number
of medical factors affecting the mother or the infant. Findings from
several of these items are included in this chapter. Another change
in the birth certificate format was the inclusion of information on
Hispanic origin of parents. This presented the opportunity to include
detailed information in this report on the characteristics of mothers
of Hispanic origin and on their birth outcomes.
The position
of items on the revised birth certificate led to considerable confusion
between the reporting of a mother's mailing address and her residence
address. In 1998, the Center for Health Statistics completed a multi-year
project involving the application of address standardization software
to convert mailing-label type information so that birth records could
be accurately assigned to geographic areas. With the resolution of this
problem, it is once again possible to display data for selected municipalities.
Additionally, births to residents of military bases and state institutions
are now attributed to the municipality and county where the base or
institution is located.
In January
of 1996, the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services began
a pilot test of its electronic birth certificate (EBC) in four maternity
hospitals in the state. Upon successful completion of this test, the
EBC was systematically installed in other New Jersey birthing facilities
over the next two years. By the end of 1997, all but two New Jersey
birthing facilities were reporting births to the State through the EBC
system. Future reports in this series will benefit from the improved
quality and timeliness of the data afforded by the EBC, as well as the
enhanced array of perinatal data provided through this system.
Statistical
Overview
Maternal Characteristics
Newborn Health |
Tables
| Table
N1 |
General
Fertility, Total Fertility and Age-Specific Birth Rates,
New Jersey, 1970, 1980, 1990 and 1997 |
| Table
N1A |
General
Fertility, Total Fertility and Age-Specific Birth Rates,
Mothers of White and Black Races, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N2 |
Resident
Births by Race of Mother and Sex of Child, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N3A |
Resident
Live Births by Method of Delivery, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N3B |
Live
Births by Method of Delivery and Rates of Cesarean Delivery,Primary
Cesarean Delivery and Vaginal Birth after PreviousCesarean
Delivery, New Jersey, 1989-1997 |
| Table
N4A |
Resident
Births to Teens for Selected Municipalities, New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N4B |
Resident
Births by Age and Marital Status of the Mother, New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N5 |
Resident
Births by Race and Age of Mother and Onset of Prenatal Care,
New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N5A |
Resident
Births to Mothers of Hispanic Origin by Age of Mother and
Onsetof Prenatal Care, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N5B |
Resident
Births to Unmarried Mothers by Age of Mother andOnset of
Prenatal Care, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N6 |
Resident
Births by Mother's Education and Onset of Prenatal Care,
New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N7 |
Resident
Births of Low Birth Weight by Age and Race of Mother, New
Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N8 |
Resident
Live Births and Live Birth Rates, New Jerseyand the United
States, 1978-1997 |
| Table
N9 |
Resident
Live Births and Birth Rates, by County and Selected Municipalities,
New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N10 |
Births
by Sex of Child and County and Selected Municipality of
Residence of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N11 |
Resident
Births by Age and Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N11A |
Resident
Births by Age and Race, Mothers of Hispanic Origin,New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N12 |
Number
and Percent of Resident Births to Women under 20 and 35
Years and Over, New Jersey, 1978-1997 |
| Table
N13 |
Births
by Age and County of Residence of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N14 |
Births
by Race and County and Selected Municipality of Residence
of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N15 |
Births
to Mothers of Hispanic Origin by Countyand Selected Municipality
of Residence, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N16 |
Resident
Births to Mothers of Hispanic Origin by Country of Origin,
New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N17 |
Resident
Births by Race and Marital Status of Mother, New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N18 |
Resident
Births by Marital Status of Mother, New Jersey, 1978-1997 |
| Table
N19 |
Births
by Mother's Marital Status and County and Selected Municipality
of Residence, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N20 |
Resident
Births by Age, Race and Marital Status of Mother, New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N21 |
Births
by Onset of Prenatal Care and Mother's County and Selected
Municipality of Residence, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N22 |
Medical
Risk Factors of this Pregnancy, Reported on Certificates
ofResident Live Births, by Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N22A |
Medical
Risk Factors of this Pregnancy Reported on Certificates
ofResident Live Births, by Mothers of Hispanic Origin, New
Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N22B |
Medical
Risk Factors of This Pregnancy Reported on Certificates
ofResident Live Births, by Age of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N23 |
Complications
of Labor and/or Delivery, Reported on Certificates ofResident
Live Births, by Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N24 |
Obstetric
Procedures Performed, Reported on Certificates of ResidentLive
Births, by Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N25 |
Resident
Births by Birth Weight of Child and Age and Race of Mother,
New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N26 |
Births
by Birth Weight and Mother's County and Selected Municipality
of Residence, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N27 |
Resident
Births by Birth Weight and Number of Previous PregnancyTerminations,
New Jersey, 1997 . |
| Table
N28 |
Resident
Births by Birth Weight and Onset of Prenatal Care, New Jersey,
1997 |
| Table
N29 |
Resident
Births by Birth Weight of Child, Onset of Prenatal Careand
Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N30 |
Resident
Births by Five-minute Apgar Score and Race of Mother, New
Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N31 |
Resident
Births by Five-minute Apgar Score and Age of Mother, New
Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N32 |
Resident
Births by Five-minute Apgar Score and Onset of Prenatal
Care, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N33 |
Abnormal
Conditions of Newborn, Reported on Certificates of ResidentLive
Births, by Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N34 |
Congenital
Anomalies of Newborn, Reported on Certificates of ResidentLive
Births, by Race of Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
| Table
N35 |
Resident
Births by Onset of Prenatal Care and Age andBirthplace of
Mother, New Jersey, 1997 |
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