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Receipt of Late* or No Prenatal Care, by Race/Ethnicity and Birth Certificate Revision, ** 2006

Receipt of Late* or No Prenatal Care, by Race/Ethnicity and Birth Certificate Revision**, 2006
Revision Status Percent of mothers
Total Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Black Hispanic

* Care beginning in the third trimester of pregnancy.

** "Unrevised" data are for all reporting areas that had not implemented the 2003 Revision of the U.S. Certificate of Live Birth as of January 2006, including California (which had implemented a partial revision); "Revised" data are for all reporting areas that had implemented the 2003 Revision, not including California.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System Go to References for this graph's full source.

Unrevised 3.6 2.3 5.7 5.0
Revised 7.9 5.2 11.8 12.2

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