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Births and Deaths: Preliminary Data for 1998

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released preliminary mortality statistics for 1998. According to the report, "rates for AIDS deaths, homicide, and teen births all dropped again in 1998, but the U.S. infant mortality rate leveled off after years of decline." However, the report also finds that HIV remains the leading cause of death among African-American men ages 25-44 and the...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr47/nvs47_25.pdf
Births: Final Data for 1997

Released on April 29, 1999, this new Department of Health and Human Services report reveals that the US birth rate has dropped to a record low, due in part to a continuing decline in the teen birth rate. The birth rate for fifteen to nineteen year-olds has declined for six straight years, falling sixteen percent between 1991 and 1997. The report, presented in .pdf format, offers a comprehensive...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr47/nvs47_18.pdf
Births: Final Data for 1998

This National Vital Statistics Report presents final data for 1998 on US births according to "a wide variety of maternal demographic characteristics including age, live-birth order, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, and educational attainment; maternal lifestyle and health characteristics; medical care utilization; and infant health characteristics." Also presented are birth and fertility...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvs48_3.pdf
Births: Preliminary Data for 1999

On Tuesday, the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released preliminary data on US births, including numbers that show the birth rate for teen mothers has declined to a 60-year low. "The preliminary report also found a drop in the number of births to unmarried teens, record high levels of women receiving early prenatal care, a rise in the cesarean delivery rate, and no improvement...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr48/nvs48_14.pdf
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Search Page

This page allows users to search the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics sites (NCHS). Collectively, these sites contain a huge amount of health and disease data from a large number of surveys. These include: National Health Interview Survey, National Immunization Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, National Survey of Family Growth, National Health Care Survey ,...

https://search.cdc.gov/search/?utf8=%25E2%259C%2593&affiliat...
DATA2010: The Healthy People 2010 Database

DATA2010 is an interactive database system developed by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This new site was designed to support the goals of the CDC's Healthy People 2010 program, which was launched in January 2000, and which includes a list of 467 objectives designed to identify specific measures to monitor health....

https://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/
Deaths: Final Data for 1996

The National Center for Health Statistics (described in the October 24, 1997 Scout Report) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently published "Deaths: Final Data for 1996." The 99-page report presents the latest data available on mortality in the US "according to a number of key demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status,...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr47/nvs47_09.pdf
Gun Deaths Among Children and Teens Drop Sharply

This week, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released this major report on health in the United States, which presents the final data on 1998 US deaths and death rates. Despite its macabre title, the report does offer some positive statistics. Foremost among these is a ten percent drop in firearms deaths for teens and children compared to 1997. Other good news: "life expectancy at...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/00news/finaldeath98.htm
US Census Bureau: 2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States

This report was released on January 22, 2002 by the U.S. Census Bureau. This in-depth report is over 1,300 pages in length and contains 30 sections of statistical data, including population, vital statistics, education, elections, energy, transportation, health and nutrition, and much more. Each section can be viewed separately and is only accessible with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2002/compendia/s...
US Decennial Life Tables 1991-1989

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics has recently released this series of publications (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only) that provide death rates calculated using "data from the 1990 Census of Population and deaths occurring in the United States to residents of the United States during the 3-year period, 1989-91." At present, 46 volumes are...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/life_tables.htm