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« on: January 09, 2009, 04:48:30 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_he_me/med_teen_births
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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2009, 05:09:30 PM »
So that's why Sarah Palin thinks the South is "Real America"- teens there get knocked up just like Bristol!
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2009, 05:11:39 PM »
I'd be curious to see what happens when you control for race. Anyone know?
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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2009, 05:13:04 PM »
Quote from: Philip on January 09, 2009, 05:11:39 PM
I'd be curious to see what happens when you control for race. Anyone know?

No idea, but I'd guess socioeconomic status is the crucial variable here.
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 05:19:17 PM »
Did Harry get pregnant.... againHuh
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« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2009, 05:49:02 PM »
Mississippi teens put out more than others!
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2009, 05:53:14 PM »
Conservative family values at work.
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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2009, 10:53:56 PM »
Quote from: dead0man on January 09, 2009, 05:49:02 PM
Mississippi teens put out more than others!

I'm moving to Mississippi Wink
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2009, 11:55:06 PM »
     Not too surprising. MS is after all one of the poorest states.
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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2009, 12:37:21 AM »
By law, I received no sex education in middle or high school.  Wonder if there's a correlation.
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« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2009, 12:46:03 AM »
Quote from: Harry the Greatest on January 10, 2009, 12:37:21 AM
By law, I received no sex education in middle or high school.  Wonder if there's a correlation.

Doubt it. Ya'll are just more fertile.
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« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2009, 12:46:32 AM »
Quote from: Harry the Greatest on January 10, 2009, 12:37:21 AM
By law, I received no sex education in middle or high school.  Wonder if there's a correlation.

Did you impregnate any lust filled fundamentalist Christians?
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« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2009, 12:52:21 AM »
God Bless Missisipi for it's Moral Fiber.
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« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2009, 02:12:38 PM »
Quote from: Philip on January 09, 2009, 05:11:39 PM
I'd be curious to see what happens when you control for race. Anyone know?
Having looked at the map of state-by-state distribution... the title might well pass to Kentucky.
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« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2009, 02:32:20 PM »
Nationwide...

birth rates for 10-14 year olds, 15-17 year olds, 18-19 year olds by race...

Anglo 0.2, 11.8, 49.3
Black 1.6, 36.2, 108.4
Hispanic 1.3, 47.9, 139.7

Asian rates are slightly lower than Anglo, Native American rates are slightly lower than Black.

There isn't a birth rate by race by state table provided in the report Angry although there is a total births by race by state table that you could probably construct something out of by comparing with race data for the relevant age group.

 
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« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2009, 02:46:03 PM »
Well, the fertility rate for Hispanics in Minnesota in 2006 was 134 while the white non-hispanic rate was 61.

The black fertility rate was 114 as was the American Indian rate.  The Asian rate was 93.

Fertility for all races under 20 was 28.2.  The general fertility rate was 2.14, which has increased pretty dramatically from about 1.7 in the mid 1970s.  There was 73,515 births in the state in 2006, the most since 1964.

Fertility rates across all rates and age groups increased in 2006.  People are simply having more children and with the larger cohorts of young people, especially in places like Mississippi from the "echo boom" of the 1980s and early '90s reaching childbearing age, it doesn't surprise me that the rates have gone up.
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« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2009, 03:04:10 PM »
Proud to say Maryland has a lot of blacks and a low rate. Smiley
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