Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, November 2007 / Vol. 56 / No. SS-9

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• Alternative Title:
  Abortion Surveillance -- United States, 2004
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries
• Personal Author:
  Strauss, Lilo T. ; Gamble, Sonya B. ; Parker, Wilda Y. ; Cook, Douglas A. ; Zane, Suzanne B. ; Hamdan, Saeed
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Reproductive Health ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  For each year since 1969, CDC has compiled abortion data by state or area of occurrence. During 1973–1997, data were received from or estimated for 52 reporting areas in the United States: 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City. In 1998 and 1999, CDC compiled abortion data from 48 reporting areas. Alaska, California, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma did not report, and data for these states were not estimated. During 2000–2002, Oklahoma again reported these data, increasing the number of reporting areas to 49; for 2003 and 2004, Alaska again reported and West Virginia did not, maintaining the number of reporting areas at 49. A total of 839,226 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC for 2004 from 49 reporting areas, representing a 1.1% decline from the 848,163 legal induced abortions reported by 49 reporting areas for 2003. The abortion ratio, defined as the number of abortions per 1,000 live births, was 238 in 2004, a decrease from the 241 in 2003. The abortion rate was 16 per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years for 2004, the same since 2000. For the same 47 reporting areas, the abortion rate remained relatively constant during 1998–2004. In 2003 (the most recent years for which data are available), 10 women died as a result of complications from known legal induced abortion. No death was associated with known illegal abortion.
• Subjects:
  Abortion, Legal / Trends Population Surveillance / Epidemiology
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Surveillance Summaries, 2007; v. 56, no. 9
• Series:
  Surveillance Summaries: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1546-0738 (print) ; 1545-8636 (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  18030283
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  36 pdf pages
• Volume:
  56
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ef652bd029f1a1864cdca3e748e67a4d11c5c9bbbde11cfaa8f441b549d2cddf37beaec933fede6f645a47352296f2f09c357d83d6840bafe605846b005a539c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6907/cdc_6907_DS1.pdf
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