DCSIMG

Indicator Profile of Birth Rate

Why Is This Important?

Tracking birth rate patterns among New Jersey and U.S. women as a whole is critical to understanding population growth and change in this country and in New Jersey.

Birth Rate by Year, New Jersey and the U.S., 1980-2007

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Data Sources

New Jersey Birth Certificate Database, Bureau of Vital Statistics and Registration, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services;  National Center for Health Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau. Vintage 2009 bridged-rate postcensal population estimates. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm as of July 23, 2010.; 

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Definition

Number of live births in a given year per 1,000 persons in the population

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: Number of live births
Denominator: Number of persons in population

Page Content Updated On 04/12/11, Published on 04/12/11
Center for Health Statistics, New Jersey Department of Health, PO Box 360, Trenton, NJ 08625-0360, Phone: 609-984-6703, Fax: 609-984-7633, e-mail: chs@doh.state.nj.us, Web: www.nj.gov/health/chs
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