When are teen pregnancy data released?

Unlike birth rates, pregnancy rates are not released on any set schedule.

Rates often lag several years behind: for example, AGI released 1992 rates in 1997, and NCHS released 1996 rates in 2000.

All rates are dependent on CDC abortion data (AGI uses the age distribution of abortions reported to CDC in its calculations). For the past few years, preliminary data on abortions for a given year have been released by CDC two full years after – i.e., preliminary abortion data for 1996 were released in December 1998, and preliminary data for 1997 were released in January 2000. For the previous three years, final data were released in July or August of the following year (i.e., final 1996 data were released in July 1999), but this was not the case in 2000 – as of October 2000, final 1997 abortion data have not yet been released.

In addition, rate sets that use the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to estimate miscarriages are presumably reliant on current NSFG data. The next NSFG is scheduled to take place in 2002.

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When are teen pregnancy data released?

Unlike birth rates, pregnancy rates are not released on any set schedule.

Rates often lag several years behind: for example, AGI released 1992 rates in 1997, and NCHS released 1996 rates in 2000.

In addition, rate sets that use the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to estimate miscarriages are presumably reliant on current NSFG data. The next NSFG is scheduled to take place in 2002.