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Reproductive Health: Maternal Risks - Multiple Gestation, 1995-1999 |
What this map layer shows:
Multiple gestation rates indicating the number of women who gave birth to live infants where the gestation included two or more fetuses, per 100 women who gave birth to live infants.
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Background Information |
Sample Map
The Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collects information on reproductive health in the United States. The CDC provides access to geographic information that describes reproductive health indicators, and is intended to allow health service providers and policymakers to conduct analyses, to monitor trends, and to evaluate the impact of policies and programs. It uses data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Indicators derived from the Interactive Atlas of Reproductive Health may differ from those provided by a local or State health department or an analysis performed by other published health statistics sources.
Multiple gestation rates indicate the number of women who gave birth to live infants where the gestation included two or more fetuses, per 100 women who gave birth to live infants. The National Atlas of the United States® prepared this map layer with information drawn from the Interactive Atlas of Reproductive Health.
The Reproductive Health: Maternal Risks - Multiple Gestation, 1995-1999 map layer reports statistics for six demographic groups: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander, Black or African American, White, Hispanic or Latino, and all groups combined. The data set consists of three database files that are distributed together, one with county statistics, one with State statistics, and one with national statistics. The national statistics were calculated from data for the fifty States, the District of Columbia and five U.S. dependent areas (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.) In the National Atlas, additional reproductive health data sets are available that provide statistics on fetal and infant mortality, live births (fertility), preterm delivery, and maternal risks from smoking. Further general information on reproductive health is available from the CDC's Reproductive Health Information Source.
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