ql points out that lowest teen birthrates are in New England and the highest are in the South and Southwest. I associate high teen birthrates with poverty and poverty in America is strongly correlated with race/ethnicity so I decided to look at the percentage of White, non-Hispanic in the top five and bottom five states:
TOP
| New Mexico | 39.4 |
| Oklahoma | 67.5 |
| Mississippi | 57.5 |
| Arkansas | 73.7 |
| Teas | 44 |
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56.42
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BOTTOM
| New Jersey | 57.6 |
| Vermont | 93.8 |
| Connecticut | 69.6 |
| Massachusetts | 75.1 |
| New Hampshire | 91.6 |
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77.54
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The Massachusetts and New Jersey have percentages similar to Arkansas and Mississippi, so the birthrate difference is not due to race/ethnicity between those states. The USA Today article reports the following groupings:
Asian or Pacific Islanders had the lowest 2012 rate at 9.7, compared with Hispanic teens who had the highest rate at 46.3. Rates for the other groups are 20.5 for white, 34.9 for American Indian or Alaska Native and 43.9 for black teens.
It would be useful to find out why the Asian/Pacific group rate is so much lower than all the others.
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