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Estimates of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing
Estimates of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing
Introduction
Data on out-of-wedlock births from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) are approximated by the number of women who had a birth in the year prior to the survey date (approximately July, 1993 to mid-June, 1994) who were currently unmarried at the time of the survey (widowed, divorced, and never married). These estimates usually are less than the corresponding estimates published by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) which are based on counts of nonmarital births obtained from individual birth certificates. For example, data published in the June 1994 CPS report indicated that 26 percent of births to women in the preceding year were born out-of-wedlock birth compared to 31 percent for calendar year 1993 published by NCHS in their latest Advance Report of Final Natality Statistics, 1993.
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