EMBARGOED UNTIL: 10 A.M. EDT, NOVEMBER 25, 1997 (TUESDAY) Public Information Office CB97-192 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-4067 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Amara Bachu 301-457-2449 Half of All Mothers With Infants Return To Labor Force After Giving Birth, Says Census Bureau Report In 1995, 55 percent of women aged 15 to 44 were in the labor force within a year of giving birth, according to a new report released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. The report, Fertility of American Women: June 1995 (P20-499), provides fertility data by age, sex, race, marital status, education, employment, occupation and income for June 1995. Among the highlights: - Women 15 to 44 years old had an average of 1.2 children each. - About 42 percent of women 15 to 44 years old were childless in 1995. - Of the 22.8 million women who were never married at the time of the survey, 21 percent had given birth to at least one child. - There were 6.1 million foreign-born women 15 to 44 years old who had an average of 1.6 children each. Detailed tables are available on the Internet at http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/fertility.html. Paper copies (PPL-74) are available from the Census Bureau's Public Information Office. The data were collected in the 1995 June Current Population Survey. As with all surveys, data are subject to sampling and other sources of error.-X-The Census Bureau pre-eminent collector and provider of timely, relevant and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. In more than 100 surveys annually and 20 censuses a decade, evolving from the first census in 1790, the Census Bureau provides official information about America's people, businesses, industries and institutions.
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