Center for Health Statistics - New Jersey Health Statistics 1999

TABLE N37. ONSET OF PRENATAL CARE BY AGE AND RACE/ETHNICITY OF MOTHER NEW JERSEY, 1999
RACE/ETHNICITY OF MOTHER AND TRIMESTER OF ONSET	TOTAL		AGE GROUP
	TOTAL		10-19		20-24		25-34		35+
	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%	NO.	%
WHITE NON-HISPANIC
First	53,370	85.5	1,274	63.8	4,715	74.0	33,919	87.7	13,457	87.7
Second	4,879	7.8	483	24.2	1,040	16.3	2,443	6.3	913	5.9
Third	1,063	1.7	135	6.8	253	4.0	495	1.3	179	1.2
No Care	186	0.3	20	1.0	53	0.8	74	0.2	39	0.3
Not Stated	2,897	4.6	84	4.2	309	4.9	1,745	4.5	757	4.9
Total	62,395	100.0	1,996	100.0	6,370	100.0	38,676	100.0	15,345	100.0
BLACK NON-HISPANIC
First	11,115	59.6	1,430	45.9	2,884	57.8	5,280	64.6	1,517	64.5
Second	4,251	22.8	1,062	34.1	1,229	24.6	1,542	18.9	418	17.8
Third	1,250	6.7	314	10.1	378	7.6	441	5.4	117	5.0
No Care	649	3.5	99	3.2	156	3.1	287	3.5	106	4.5
Not Stated	1,369	7.3	211	6.8	340	6.8	624	7.6	194	8.2
Total	18,634	100.0	3,116	100.0	4,987	100.0	8,174	100.0	2,352	100.0
HISPANIC
First	13,966	66.5	1,618	53.5	3,627	61.9	6,892	71.2	1,828	74.9
Second	4,619	22.0	931	30.8	1,472	25.1	1,824	18.9	392	16.1
Third	1,231	5.9	272	9.0	433	7.4	433	4.5	93	3.8
No Care	231	1.1	54	1.8	72	1.2	84	0.9	20	0.8
Not Stated	962	4.6	152	5.0	258	4.4	443	4.6	109	4.5
Total	21,009	100.0	3,027	100.0	5,862	100.0	9,676	100.0	2,442	100.0
ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER NON-HISPANIC
First	6,194	79.3	42	42.0	558	70.6	4,332	80.4	1,262	82.4
Second	906	11.6	35	35.0	135	17.1	588	10.9	148	9.7
Third	242	3.1	19	19.0	42	5.3	151	2.8	30	2.0
No Care	29	0.4	2	2.0	7	0.9	14	0.3	6	0.4
Not Stated	437	5.6	2	2.0	48	6.1	302	5.6	85	5.6
Total	7,808	100.0	100	100.0	790	100.0	5,387	100.0	1,531	100.0
OTHER NON-HISPANIC
First	485	63.5	35	45.5	88	58.3	270	66.8	92	69.7
Second	167	21.9	33	42.9	39	25.8	75	18.6	20	15.2
Third	44	5.8	6	7.8	13	8.6	19	4.7	6	4.5
No Care	14	1.8	1	1.3	2	1.3	7	1.7	4	3.0
Not Stated	54	7.1	2	2.6	9	6.0	33	8.2	10	7.6
Total	764	100.0	77	100.0	151	100.0	404	100.0	132	100.0
TOTAL
First	85,423	75.1	4,424	52.7	11,912	64.6	50,850	79.3	18,227	80.0
Second	14,892	13.1	2,556	30.5	3,931	21.3	6,507	10.1	1,898	8.3
Third	3,857	3.4	749	8.9	1,123	6.1	1,551	2.4	433	1.9
No Care	1,142	1.0	182	2.2	293	1.6	478	0.7	187	0.8
Not Stated	8,496	7.5	481	5.7	1,192	6.5	4,775	7.4	2,043	9.0
Total	113,810	100.0	8,392	100.0	18,451	100.0	64,161	100.0	22,788	100.0
Total by race/ethnicity and total by age includes race/ethnicity not stated and/or age not stated.

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