TABLE N37. ONSET OF PRENATAL CARE BY AGE AND RACE/ETHNICITY OF MOTHER
NEW JERSEY, 1998
RACE/ETHNICITY OF MOTHER AND TRIMESTER OF ONSET	TOTAL		AGE GROUP
			10-19		20-24		25-34		35-59
	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%
WHITE NON-HISPANIC
First	53,020	83.3	1,259	61.8	4,593	71.7	34,397	85.6	12,770	85.0
Second	4,918	7.7	494	24.3	1,132	17.7	2,424	6.0	867	5.8
Third	1,037	1.6	122	6.0	243	3.8	510	1.3	162	1.1
No Care	185	0.3	32	1.6	47	0.7	74	0.2	31	0.2
Not Stated	4,502	7.1	130	6.4	393	6.1	2,780	6.9	1,194	7.9
Total	63,662	100.0	2,037	100.0	6,408	100.0	40,185	100.0	15,024	100.0
BLACK NON-HISPANIC
First	11,326	59.8	1,680	47.2	2,757	58.2	5,397	64.9	1,490	64.6
Second	4,207	22.2	1,213	34.1	1,174	24.8	1,459	17.5	361	15.6
Third	1,277	6.7	365	10.2	350	7.4	442	5.3	120	5.2
No Care	732	3.9	102	2.9	165	3.5	350	4.2	115	5.0
Not Stated	1,392	7.4	202	5.7	293	6.2	668	8.0	222	9.6
Total	18,934	100.0	3,562	100.0	4,739	100.0	8,316	100.0	2,308	100.0
HISPANIC
First	13,729	68.2	1,684	56.5	3,623	64.0	6,706	72.8	1,715	75.5
Second	4,429	22.0	916	30.7	1,454	25.7	1,710	18.6	349	15.4
Third	1,068	5.3	258	8.7	349	6.2	379	4.1	82	3.6
No Care	158	0.8	38	1.3	56	1.0	57	0.6	7	0.3
Not Stated	745	3.7	84	2.8	178	3.1	363	3.9	120	5.3
Total	20,129	100.0	2,980	100.0	5,660	100.0	9,215	100.0	2,273	100.0
ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER NON-HISPANIC
First	5,889	79.7	52	54.7	528	70.3	4,094	80.4	1,214	83.6
Second	891	12.1	28	29.5	139	18.5	583	11.5	141	9.7
Third	225	3.0	11	11.6	52	6.9	144	2.8	18	1.2
No Care	17	0.2	1	1.1	0	0.0	11	0.2	5	0.3
Not Stated	370	5.0	3	3.2	32	4.3	259	5.1	75	5.2
Total	7,392	100.0	95	100.0	751	100.0	5,091	100.0	1,453	100.0
OTHER NON-HISPANIC
First	513	67.1	54	57.4	108	64.7	281	69.2	70	71.4
Second	147	19.2	25	26.6	37	22.2	71	17.5	14	14.3
Third	45	5.9	6	6.4	10	6.0	25	6.2	4	4.1
No Care	12	1.6	2	2.1	2	1.2	7	1.7	1	1.0
Not Stated	48	6.3	7	7.4	10	6.0	22	5.4	9	9.2
Total	765	100.0	94	100.0	167	100.0	406	100.0	98	100.0
TOTAL
First	84,701	74.4	4,746	54.0	11,651	64.7	50,989	78.5	17,310	78.4
Second	14,646	12.9	2,684	30.5	3,948	21.9	6,273	9.7	1,740	7.9
Third	3,668	3.2	763	8.7	1,008	5.6	1,509	2.3	388	1.8
No Care	1,116	1.0	176	2.0	271	1.5	505	0.8	162	0.7
Not Stated	9,719	8.5	419	4.8	1,129	6.3	5,651	8.7	2,474	11.2
Total	113,850	100.0	8,788	100.0	18,007	100.0	64,927	100.0	22,074	100.0
Total by race/ethnicity and total by age includes race/ethnicity not stated and/or age not stated.