Annual report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the North Carolina State Board of Health

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North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide (Biennial):
Data for the U.S., N.C., and N .C. counties are presented in tabular and narrative forms with more than 8,000 calculations depicting
patterns of various needs indicators, as well as births, deaths, abortions, diseases, health care resources, and other uata from state
and national reporting systems and surveys. This composite of information, contained in a compact foldout, will serve the needs
of many health data users.
North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volume 1: Population, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces (Annual):
For the state and each Perinatal Care Region (PCR), county, and major incorporated city, one-page tables summarize annual and
5-year data by race and selected variables. Maps, graphs, and narrative describe geographical patterns and statewide trends.
North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volume 2: Leading Causes ofDeath (Annual):
For the state and counties, cause-specific annual and 5-year data are given in the form ofnumbers ofdeaths, unadjusted death rates,
and age-adjusted death rates. For each cause, maps depict 5-year adjusted and unadjusted county rates. Infant mortality data are
also tabulated and mapped.
Basic Automated Birth Yearbook, North Carolina Residents (Annual):
Known as the BABY BOOK, this statewide report is comprised of multiple cross-tabulations of various maternal and infant
variables such as age, race, birth order, birth weight, and number of prenatal visits as well as medical conditions of the mother,
the labor/delivery, and the newborn. Data for North Carolina counties are available on microfiche.
Detailed Mortality Statistics, North Carolina Residents (Annual):
This statewide report provides annual counts of deaths specific for detailed underlying cause of death (4 digits) and age-race-sex
group. Data for counties are available on microfiche.
North Carolina Reported Pregnancies (Annual):
For the state, PCRs, and counties, annual estimates of pregnancy rates, live birth rates, abortion rates, and abortion fractions by
age and race are followed by one-page tables displaying counts ofpregnancies (abortions, live births, and fetal deaths) by race and
age for total and unmarried women. Maps, graphs, and narrative describe geographical patterns and statewide trends.
Cancer Incidence in North Carolina, County-Specific Numbers (Annual):
Observed and expected numbers of newly diagnosed cancer cases for 26 cancer sites and total cancer are provided by county and
gender. State and county tabulations of cases by race-sex and age are also provided.
North Carolina Cancer Facts and Figures (Biennial):
This collaborative report with the American Cancer Society is prepared specifically for use by the public. It contains tabular,
graphic, and narrative materials regarding cancer in North Carolina. Information about cancer control activities and agencies in
the state is also given.
Local Health Department Facility and Staffing Report (Biennial):
Facility-level data are compiled from health department surveys. Capacity of facilities, staffing levels, and expenditure data are
provided.
SCHS Studies (Intermittent):
Studies on health topics of current interest are presented in newsletter form.
Statistical Brief (Intermittent):
These shorter reports on health topics are designed to provide quick information for health decision makers.
Statistical Primer (Intermittent):
Short tutorials on statistical methods are presented in newsletter form.
An Inventory of North Carolina Health Data (Intermittent):
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are the data set's location, the data collection interval, the smallest unit ofanalysis, whether computerized, and the name ofa contact
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North Carolina
VITAL STATISTICS
1998
VOLUME 1: Births
Death>
Population
Marriages
Divorces
N.C. Department of Health and Human Services
Division of Public Health
State Center for Health Statistics
Raleigh, North Carolina
www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Ann F. Wolfe, M.D., M.P.H., Director
STATE CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS
John M. Booker, Ph.D., Director
Edited by:
Manjoo Mittal
Other Contributors:
Paul A. Buescher
Dianne Enright
Ziya Gizlice
Jean Stafford
December 1999
800 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $4,327. 10 or $5.41 per copy.
This publication is printed on permanent, acid-free paper in compliance with
the General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 125-1 1.13.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
I. INTRODUCTION 1-1
n. HIGHLIGHTS IN VITAL STATISTICS 1-3
m. GEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS IN VITAL STATISTICS 1-7
IV. REGISTRATION OF VITAL EVENTS ; . 1-17
Birth and Death 1-17
Fetal Death 1-17
Marriage and Divorce 1-17
V. TECHNICAL NOTES 1-19
Residence Allocation 1-19
Occurrence Allocation 1-19
Race or Color Allocation 1-19
Completeness of Registration of Vital Events 1-19
Accuracy of Items on Certificate 1-20
Treatment of Missing Values 1-20
VI. POPULATION BASES AND BIASES IN VITAL STATISTICS RATES 1-21
VII. DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS 1-23
SYMBOLS 1-28
REFERENCES 1-29
TABLES
State 2-1
Perinatal Care Regions 3-1
Counties 4-1
Cities 5-1
COVER: The pen and ink drawing of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is used by permis-sion
of the artist, Jerry Miller of Cary.
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I. INTRODUCTION
This volume is the 83rd annual vital statistics report of the State of North Carolina. It is intended to
serve as a basic resource to those individuals, institutions, and agencies delivering and/or planning
health services for the citizens of North Carolina.
The tables of this report show annual frequencies, annual rates, and 5-year rates for the state, six
Perinatal Care Regions, and the 100 counties of North Carolina. In addition, annual frequencies and
selected rates are shown for 50 major incorporated cities, those of at least 10,000 population in 1990.
Users of city data should be aware that annexations may account for small to substantial increases in
population and reported vital events.
Trends in state data are described in Section II, while Section III contains maps depicting county
data. Sections IV-VII contain description and discussion of the terms and procedures underlying all
tabular and graphical data presented.
Other publications available through this office are described on the back of the front cover. If you
want copies of these publications, contact Information Services at (919) 733-4728 or address corre-spondence
to:
State Center for Health Statistics
Department of Health and Human Services
1908 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-1908
Caution: Any percentage or rate with a small number of events in the numerator will have
substantial random variation over time. A rule of thumb is that any percentage or rate with
fewer than 20 events in the numerator may be subject to serious random error. Therefore,
many of the percentages and rates in this volume should be interpreted with caution.
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II. HIGHLIGHTS IN VITAL STATISTICS
(Changes from 1997 to 1998)
LIVE BIRTHS
- The overall birth rate showed an increase of 2.8 percent. The increase was greater for the white popu-lation,
up by 3 percent, as compared to the minority population where the increase was 2.3 percent.
- The percentage of births attended by certified nurse-midwives increased by 7 percent, from 7.0 per-cent
to 7.5 percent, following a substantial increase of 23 percent in the previous year.
- The percentage of babies born with a low birthweight (less than 2500 grams) remained at the same
level as that of the previous year.
- The percentage of the state's live births that occurred out-of-wedlock edged up 1.9 percent, from 32.2
percent to 32.8 percent.
- The percentage of mothers who smoked declined from 15.1 percent to 14.9 percent. The decline was
similar for both whites and minorities.
- The percentage of C-section births was up by 1 .9 percent, from 21 .4 percent to 2 1 .8 percent.
PERINATAL AND INFANT MORTALITY
- The perinatal mortality rate showed no change, remaining at 14.5.
- Although the overall fetal death rate was the same as the year before at 8.0 percent, it increased for
the whites from 6.0 percent to 6.3 percent and declined for the minorities from 12.9 to 12.3 percent.
- The overall neonatal death rate showed no change. Looking at differences between the races, it was
down for the whites by 8.3 percent, whereas for minorities it was up by 10.4 percent.
- The postneonatal death rate showed a slight increase from 2.7 in 1997 to 2.8 in 1998.
- The infant death rate increased slightly from the year before, from 9.2 to 9.3.
DEATHS
- The overall death rate increased slightly to 9.0 deaths per 1 ,000 population, from 8.9 deaths per 1 ,000
population in 1998.
MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES
- The marriage rate declined by 2.3 percent from 8.7 per 1 ,000 population in 1997 to 8.5 in 1998. This
trend was also seen in the marriage rate for the United States, which declined by 5.6 percent.
- The divorce rate in North Carolina was down by 2 percent. This was in line with the national divorce
rate which exhibited a decline of 2.3 percent.
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Trends depicted in the graphs are for North Carolina and the United States. Data for the U.S. are from the
National Center for Health Statistics.
LIVE BIRTHS
1978-1998
Rate per 1,000 Population
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
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LOW-WEIGHT BIRTHS
1978-1998
Percent ol Live Births
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
Year
OUT-OF-WEDLOCK LIVE BIRTHS
1978-1998
Percent of Live Births
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TOTAL MORTALITY
1978-1998
Rate per 1,000 Population
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
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INFANT MORTALITY
1978-1998
Rate per 1,000 Live Births
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
Year
WHITE MORTALITY
1978-1998
Rate
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
Year
MINORITY MORTALITY
1978-1998
Rate
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
Year
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MARRIAGE RATES
1978-1998
Rate per 1,000 Population
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78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 98
Year
DIVORCE RATES
1978-1998
Rate per 1,000 Population
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III. GEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS IN VITAL STATISTICS
This section contains nine maps depicting population and selected vital statistics for the state's 100
counties. Data and population bases for the vital statistics rates are for the 5-year period 1994-98. The
range of data values indicated by the map legend was formed by a clustering routine from the Statistical
Analysis System. 1 This routine groups into five clusters counties that were "most like each other" with
respect to the statistic being examined. This procedure may result in very large or very small groups,
depending upon how counties differ from one another.
The nine maps display the county statistics listed below. Definitions and formulas are found in
Section VII and maps displaying county names are printed on the reverse sides of region and county
divider sheets. It should be noted that marriage and divorce rates are not mapped because these data are
tabulated only by county of occurrence, not county of residence.
FIGURE
1. Estimated Population, July 1998
2. Live Births per 1,000 Population
3. Low Birthweight Live Births per 100 Live Births
4. Out-of-Wedlock Live Births per 100 Live Births
5. Fetal Deaths per 1,000 Deliveries
6. Neonatal Deaths per 1,000 Live Births
7. Postneonatal Deaths per 1,000 Neonatal Survivors
8. Infant Deaths per 1,000 Live Births
9. Deaths per 1,000 Population
Although the vital statistics rates shown on the maps are 5-year rates, be careful when interpreting
relatively high rates in sparsely populated counties. These counties usually have a small number of
births and deaths, which may create a very unstable rate. Consult your respective county tables for the
1998 numbers involved before becoming alarmed at relatively high county-level rates.
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IV. REGISTRATION OF VITAL EVENTS
The origin, flow, and disposition of North Carolina vital records are illustrated in the flow diagram on the
following page. A brief history of vital records processing and current registration practice in North Carolina
is presented.
The Bureau of Vital Statistics was created by an act of the General Assembly in 1913. The Vital Statistics
office became a part ofthe Department ofHuman Resources in 1973. In 1989, the General Assembly combined
the Department ofHuman Resources' Division ofHealth Services and the environmental and natural resources
divisions of the Department ofNatural Resources and Community Development to create the new Department
of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources. In 1997 the public health divisions, including the Vital
Statistics office, were combined back with the human resources division to form a new Department of Health
and Human Services. The public health authority of this department and the laws that it administers are
contained in Chapter 130A, Article 4, of the General Statutes of North Carolina. Within the organizational
structure of the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Registrar of Vital Statistics is appointed
by the State Health Director. Duties of the State Registrar are accomplished primarily by the Vital Records
Branch of the State Center for Health Statistics.
Birth and Death
The collection of birth and death records began on October 1, 1913. The Department of Health and Human
Services is the custodian ofthese records. The hospital administrator or person attending a non-hospital delivery
is required to file a birth certificate or fetal death report within 10 days after delivery. The funeral director or
person burying or otherwise disposing of a body is responsible for filing a death certificate with the local
registrar within five days after death.
The local registrar is the county health director. A clerk of the county health department, designated by the
local registrar as deputy registrar, carries out registration procedures locally. The deputy registrar forwards the
original birth and death certificates to the Department of Health and Human Services on the fifth day of the
month following the birth or death, where they are processed and permanently preserved. Microfilmed copies
and computerized data from birth and death certificates are sent to the National Center for Health Statistics.
North Carolina was admitted into the National Death Registration Area in 1916 and into the National Birth
Registration Area in 1917.
Fetal Death
North Carolina law requires the filing of a fetal death report for fetal deaths (stillbirths) of 20 or more weeks
gestation. Legislation enacted by the 1971 General Assembly and subsequent legislation requires that
therapeutic abortions be reported separately, effective May 19, 1971. Thus, the induced abortion report form
now replaces a fetal death report for the very few therapeutic abortions occurring at 20 or more weeks gestation.
For this reason, counts of fetal deaths and perinatal deaths since 1971 are not strictly comparable to counts in
previous years.
Marriage and Divorce
In 1957, the General Assembly enacted legislation requiring that the duties of the clerk of court include the
registration of divorces and annulments of marriage effective January 1, 1958. Certificates of divorce and
annulments are required to be sent to the Department of Health and Human Services on or before the 15th day
of the month following the event. The filing of certificates of divorce rather than divorce listings was started
January 1, 1984, following legislation in 1983.
By virtue of legislation enacted in 1961, the duties of the county register of deeds include the registration of
marriages occurring on or after January 1, 1962. Copies of the certificates of marriage are required to be
forwarded to the Department of Health and Human Services on or before the 15th day of the month following
the marriage. The original certificates are filed with the county register of deeds.
In January 1964, North Carolina was admitted to the National Marriage Registration Area. North Carolina
is not a member of the National Divorce Registration Area.
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THE ORIGIN, FLOW, AND DISPOSITION OF VITAL RECORDS
NORTH CAROLINA
HOSPITAL
ADMINISTRATOR
Statutory Citation
G.S. 130A-101 & 114
Completes birth certifi-cate
or fetal death report
for hospital deliveries.
Obtains certifier's signa-ture.
Sends birth certificate or
fetal death report to
county registrar.
Responds to requests for
information.
PHYSICIAN
Statutory Citation
G.S. 130A-101 & 114
Signs birth certificate or
fetal death report.
Completes birth certifi-cate
or fetal death report
for non-hospital delivery;
sends to county registrar.
Completes cause of death
and signs certificate for
all non-medical-examiner
deaths.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR MEDICAL EXAMINER REGISTER OF DEEDS
Statutory Citation
G.S. 130A-112& 115
Sends notification of
death to registrar and com-pletes
death certificate.
Obtains cause ofdeath and
signature of physician.
Obtains burial transit per-mit
when necessary.
Delivers death certificate
to county registrar within
five days.
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Statutory Citation
G.S. 130A-114, 115 &
383
Initiates certificate for a
death resulting from in-jury,
suicide, or homicide,
and for certain unattended
deaths and fetal deaths.
Investigates circum-stances
surrounding afore-mentioned
deaths and cer-tifies
cause and manner of
death.
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Statutory Citation
G.S. 130A-110
Completes marriage certi-ficates
for all marriages.
Sends copy of marriage
certificate to Department
of Health and Human
Services.
Prepares delayed certifi-cates
and sends to DHHS
for approval.
Initiates amendment ap-plication^
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CLERK OF COURT
Statutory Citation G.S. 130A-111
Completes divorce certificate and
forwards to Department of
Health and Human Services.
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COUNTY REGISTRAR (COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT)
Statutory Citation G.S. 130A-97
Checks records for accuracy and completeness.
Requests further information when necessary.
Prepares copy of birth and death certificates for register of deeds.
Sends original birth and death certificates to the Department of Health
and Human Services.
Issues burial transit permits.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS)
VITAL RECORDS BRANCH
STATE CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (SCHS)
REPORT PROCESSING —Receives and processes current reports of births, deaths, marriages,
and divorces and delayed birth certificates.
—Codes demographic data. —Provides consultation and assistance to individuals involved with
vital records registration.
CORRECTIONS —Receives and processes all requests for change to prior records.
SPECIAL REGISTRATION —Reviews and processes all requests for adoption, legitimation, and
judicial determinations of paternity.
NOSOLOGY —Codes all conditions at death using current revision of the ICD. —Codes underlying cause on fetal death report. —Codes congenital anomalies on birth certificates.
MICROFILM AND PRESERVATION —Microfilms all vital records. —Prepares certifications, verifications, and manuscripts from micro-film
and xerox. —Stores and preserves all original records.
STATISTICAL SERVICES AND HEALTH INFORMATION
BRANCHES
—Answers requests for vital statistics data. —Publishes annual reports; conducts special studies. —Keys data from vital records—births, deaths, fetal deaths,
marriages, and divorces. —Performs selective edit of variables and maintains cumulative files. —Transmits data to the National Center for Health Statistics.
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SOCIAL SERVICES
Sends adoption reports to
special registration.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS
Receives microfilm and data from state.
Performs sample quality control and assures receipt of all records and
corrections.
Publishes United States reports.
Provides technical assistance.
Provides classes in registration (ASTI).
OTHER STATES
Exchange birth and death records.
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V. TECHNICAL NOTES
Residence Allocation
Except as otherwise indicated, births and deaths in this report are based on place of residence. In the case of
a birth or fetal death, residence is the usual residence of the mother. For deaths of persons in long-term
institutions (mental, penal, old age, orphan, nursing home, rest home, etc.), the institution is considered the usual
residence, provided the decedent has resided in the institution at least one year. College students and military
personnel are considered residents of the college or military community.
North Carolina participates in an interchange program whereby photocopies of nonresident birth and death
certificates are required to be sent to the state of residence within two months of the date of occurrence. The
National Center for Health Statistics acts as a control for this interchange through a report from each state that
lists the number of each type of vital record sent to every other state. However, delays or omissions in the
interchange undoubtedly occur.
Occurrence Allocation
Items 9 and 18 of the tables allocate live births and deaths respectively to place of occurrence regardless of
place of residence. Marriage and divorce data are compiled only by place of occurrence -county of license for
marriages and county of decree for divorces and annulments - because (i) all states do not engage in an
interchange program whereby we receive notification of North Carolina residents who marry or divorce in other
states and (ii) the two parties to these proceedings are often residents of different counties or states.
Race or Color Allocation
Two broad categories, "white" and "minority," are used in this report. Minority is predominantly black
(>90%) in North Carolina. For births and fetal deaths, the child is considered to be the same race as the mother.
Due to some cases of different races of the two parties involved in marriage and divorce/annulment
proceedings and to a number of "not stated" race cases, frequencies and rates for these events are not shown
by race.
Completeness of Registration of Vital Events
Completeness of registration is defined as the degree to which reported birth and death counts agree with the
true counts in a given time frame. Birth registration, tested for completeness in 1940 and 1950, was found to
be 86 and 96 percent complete respectively. 2 Death registration is believed to be even more complete than birth
registration. Fetal death registration, tested for completeness in 1974, was found to be 99 percent complete. 3
Marriage registration was tested for completeness in 1963. Over 99 percent of performed marriages had a
properly recorded certificate of marriage.4
Delayed registration results in incomplete recording of vital events for a specific time period. Frequency
counts in this report are based on 1 998 events filed with the local registrar prior to April 1 , 1 999, and processed
in the state office before the end of June 1 999. Based on examinations of lagtimes in prior years, the number
of calendar year events filed after April 1 of the subsequent year is considered negligible.
In addition to the above, a source of incompleteness in residence data could involve failure of other states to
send photocopies for North Carolina resident events occurring in their states. The extent to which this occurs
is unknown.
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Accuracy of Items on Certificate
The Vital Records Branch maintains continuous surveillance of certificates to detect inconsistencies in
related items (e.g., newborn's name vs. sex). However, the true extent of bias and unreliability of vital records
data is not known. One study by the State Center for Health Statistics has addressed the issue of the validity of
selected birth certificate items, as compared with information recorded in the mother's hospital medical record. 5
Treatment of Missing Values
As a result of a survey to reconcile inconsistencies in the data and to complete unanswered items, missing
values are rare for the characteristics included in this report. These "not stated" cases are treated in one of two
ways:
( 1
)
not allocated because they are believed to have an unknown distribution that is different from the
distribution for "stated" cases; or
(2) randomly distributed in the same proportion as the "stated" cases for the state.
The following table shows the number and treatment of missing values in the statistical files underlying this
report. In the case of race, marital status, mother smoked, and method of delivery, most of the missing values
are due to absence of these items on certificates from other states.
Number of Missing Values by Item and Treatment
North Carolina 1998
Treatment of Missing Values
Treatment 1 Treatment 2
Live Births
Sex
Birth Weight 54
Marital Status 17
Race
Mother Smoked 157
Method of Delivery 32
Deaths
Age
Race
Sex
Fetal Deaths
Marital Status 10
Race
33
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VI. POPULATION BASES AND BIASES IN
VITAL STATISTICS RATES
Every 10 years (years ending in zero) the U.S. Bureau of the Census counts the United States population,
which includes a profile of the population's characteristics such as age, race, and sex. After a census year,
estimates of population size and composition are based on knowledge of the population in the census year plus
subsequent events such as births, deaths, and migration.
In the latter years of a decade, estimates may depart considerably from "true" population values to the extent
that assumptions, particularly about in- and out- migration, depart from what has actually occurred. Thus, vital
statistics rates that are based on population counts in the denominator may be subject to some degree of error.
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VII. DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS
Caution: Any percentage or rate with a small number of events in the numerator will have substantial random
variation over time. A rule of thumb is that any percentage or rate with fewer than 20 events in the numerator may
be subject to serious random error. Therefore, many of the percentages and rates in this volume should be interpreted
with caution.
Births and deaths are exhibited in the tables of this report by frequencies and rates. The term "rate" usually
means the number of vital events in a given period of time divided by the average number of people at risk during
that period. In this report, the average number of people at risk is usually the midyear population, the period is
one year or five years, and the rate is expressed per 1 ,000 population. For example, the formula for a single-year
birth rate is
B—
x 1,000
P
where B is the number of births in the year and P is the midyear population. Similarly, the formula for a 5-year
birth rate is
B, + B2+ B
3
+ B4 + B
5
x 1 ,000
P
l
+ p2+p+p4+ps
where B , B,, etc. are the numbers of births in the particular years and P , P , etc. are the midyear populations
in those years.
The term rate is also used in this report to mean a simple proportion expressed per 100 or per 1,000. These
rates are the ratio of two related vital event counts. An example of this type of rate is the single-year infant
mortality rate. The formula is
D—
x 1,000
B
where D represents deaths of infants during a year and B represents live births during the same year. Another
example is the low birthweight rate which is the ratio of low birthweight births to total births expressed as a
percentage.
LBW
x 100
B
Rates are rounded to one decimal place for publication. Except for marriages and divorces for which race-specific
rates are not calculated, a blank in the rate column indicates that both the numerator and the denominator
are zero. A rate of 0.0 is shown for rates less than 0.05.
Inaccurate reporting, under-registration, and missing values have been discussed (Section V). These factors
affect the validity of information involved in rate computation. The users of vital statistics measures should be
aware of these possible limitations.
Furthermore, you should cautiously interpret rates that are based on small frequencies since they may be
associated with relatively large chance fluctuation. For this reason, 5-year rates are included. Based on an
increased number of events, these average annual rates are more stable than the single-year rates.
In comparing rates, consider carefully the factors to which a difference in rates might be attributed. Unless
the populations are equivalent in all factors except the one for which the comparison is made, conclusions about
differences in rates may not be clearly drawn. Age-adjusted rates or other further analyses may be necessary
in order to make valid comparisons.
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Definitions and formulas are given in the numerical order of their appearance in the tables. Except for items
9 and 1 8-20, rates are for resident events.
Definitions
1
.
Population is the expected population of an area as of July 1 of the event year. Figures shown in the
tables of this report are summations overage-race-sex-specific estimates provided by the Office of State
Planning.
2. Natural Increase is the excess of births over deaths among residents of an area.
3. A Live Birth is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception,
irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after separation, breathes or shows any other evidence
of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or any definite movement of
voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached (definition
adopted by World Health Organization in 1950).
4. Attendant is a physician (M.D. or D.O.) in a hospital, a physician not in a hospital, a certified nurse-midwife
(CNM), or other attendant. Legislation during 1983 (H.B. 814) regulates the practices of
CNMs; these practitioners must have certification by the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
5. Low Birthweight includes liveborn infants weighing under 2,500 grams (5 pounds, 8 ounces or less)
at birth, regardless of the period of gestation. (Birthweight index recommended by the Expert Group
on Prematurity of the World Health Organization, 1950).
6. Birth Out of Wedlock is birth to a woman who has never been legally married or who has been
widowed or legally divorced from her husband in excess of 280 days.6
7. Mother Smoked is based on birth certificate reporting that the mother used tobacco during the
pregnancy.
8. C-Section indicates that the method of delivery was either a primary or a repeat C-section.
9. An Occurrence Birth is one that occurs in an area irrespective of place of residence. Live births
occurring in an area to residents of the area are also shown in the tables. Complementary totals, i.e.,
nonresident births occurring in the area and resident births occurring elsewhere, may be obtained by
subtraction.
10. Perinatal Deaths are the sum of registered fetal deaths and neonatal deaths (see definitions below).
1 1 . Fetal Death is death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human
conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, as indicated by the fact that after such expulsion
or extraction the fetus does not breathe or show any evidence of life, such as beating of the heart,
pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles (definition adopted by
World Health Organization in 1 950). Consistent with North Carolina law, this report includes only fetal
deaths which do not qualify as therapeutic abortions and which result from pregnancies of 20 or more
weeks gestation (see Section IV).
1 2. Neonatal Death is death of a liveborn child under 28 days of age.
13. Postneonatal Death is death of an infant age 28 days and over but less than one year of age.
14. Infant Death is defined as death of a liveborn infant under one year of age.
15. Death is defined as the permanent disappearance of any evidence of life at any time after live birth. 7
Also, North Carolina law (G.S. 90-322) defines criteria for certifying "brain death."
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1 6. Age at Death is reported age in completed years as of the last birthday. Errors in reporting are believed
to include underestimates for ages 22 through middle age and overestimates for persons nearing their
21st and 65th birthdays and for those over age 65. Preferences for ages ending in certain digits (e.g.,
age ending in and 5) may also result in undue concentrations of reported ages.*
17. Place of Death is the hospital, other institution, or noninstitution place of death.
1 8. An Occurrence Death is one that occurs in an area regardless of place of residence.
1 9. Marriage is defined as the legal union of a male and a female (North Carolina G.S. 51-1). Marriages
are by place of occurrence; race-specific data are not shown (see Section V).
20. Divorces and Annulments can occur only by decree of an authorized court. Annulments, which void
marriage from the beginning, constitute less than one percent of the sum of these events. A divorce from
bed and board is a judicial separation suspending cohabitation but not otherwise affecting the marriage
bond. Divorces from bed and board are not included in this report. Divorces and annulments are by place
of occurrence; race-specific data are not shown (see Section V).
Formulas
1 . Population
Percentage of N.C. population
residing in area
Percentage male population
in area
Percentage female population
in area
Population of area
Population of North Carolina
Male population of area
Total population of area
Female population of area
Total population of area
X 100
X 100
X 100
2. Natural Increase
Rate of
natural increase
Number of live births
minus number of deaths
Population of area
X 1,000
3. Live Births
Birth rate
Male birth rate
Female birth rate
Number of live births
Population of area
Number of male live births
Population of area
Number of female live births
Population of area
X 1,000
X 1,000
X 1,000
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4. Attendant
Percentage of live births
attended by physician in hospital
Percentage of live births attended
by physician not in hospital
Percentage of live births attended
by certified nurse-midwife
Percentage of live births
attended by other
5. Low Birthweight
Percentage of live births
classified as low weight
6. Births out of Wedlock
Percentage of live births
occurring out of wedlock
7. Mother Smoked
Percentage of live births to mothers
who used tobacco during pregnancy
8. C-Section
Percentage of live births by C-section
9. Occurrence Births
Percentage of N.C. live births
occurring in area
Percentage of area live births
occurring to residents of area
Number of live births attended
by physician in hospital
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births attended
by physician not in hospital
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births attended
by certified nurse-midwife
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births
attended by other
X 100
Number of live births
Number of low-weight live births
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births
occurring out of wedlock
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births to mothers
who used tobacco
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births by C-section
X 100
Number of live births
Number of live births
occurring in area
-— X 100
Number of live births
occurring in N.C.
Number of resident live
births occurring in area
X 100
Number of total live
births occurring in area
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1 0. Perinatal Deaths
Perinatal mortality rate
11. Fetal Deaths
Fetal mortality rate
1 2. Neonatal Deaths
Neonatal mortality rate
13. Postneonatal Deaths
Postneonatal mortality rate
14. Infant Deaths
Infant mortality rate
15. Deaths
Death rate
Male-specific death rate
Female-specific death rate
16. Age-specific Deaths
Age-specific death rate
Number of fetal deaths plus
number of neonatal deaths
Number of live births plus
number of fetal deaths
Number of fetal deaths
Number of live births plus
number of fetal deaths
Number of neonatal deaths
Number of live births
Number of postneonatal deaths
Number of live births minus
number of neonatal deaths
Number of infant deaths
Number of live births
Number of deaths
Population of area
Number of male deaths
Male population of area
Number of female deaths
Female population of area
Number of deaths in age group
Population in age group
X 1,000
X 1 ,000
X 1,000
X 1 ,000
X 1,000
X 1 ,000
X 1,000
X 1 ,000
X 1 ,000
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17 Place of Death
Percentage of deaths Number of deaths in hospitals
occurring in hospitals = X 100
Number of deaths
Number of deaths in non-
Percentage of deaths occurring hospital institutions
in nonhospital institutions = X 100
Number of deaths
Number of deaths in
Percentage of deaths occurring home or noninstitutions
in home or noninstitution = X 100
Number of deaths
18. Occurrence Deaths
Number of deaths
Percentage of N.C. deaths occurring in area
occurring in area = X 100
Number of deaths occurring
in North Carolina
Number of resident deaths
Percentage of area deaths occurring in area
occurring to residents of area = X 100
Number of total deaths
occurring in area
19. Marriages
Number of marriages
occurring in area
Marriage rate = X 1,000
Population of area
20. Divorces and Annulments
Number of divorces and annulments
occurring in area
Divorce/Annulment rate = X 1,000
Population of area
Symbols
Quantity (frequency) is zero
Rate is less than 0.05 0.0
Rate is not applicable blank space
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REFERENCES
(1) Barr, Anthony J.; Goodnight, James H.; Sals, John P.; and Helwig, Jane T. Statistical Analysis System,
Cluster Procedure. SAS Institute, Inc., Raleigh, N.C. 1976.
(2) U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "Birth Registration Completeness in the United
States and Geographical Areas, 1950." Vol. 39, No. 2. Public Health Service, National Office of Vital
Statistics. September 21, 1954.
(3) Lucas, I.J. A Study of Completeness of Fetal Death Registration in North Carolina. North Carolina
Department of Human Resources, Division of Health Services Statistical Report Series. No. SRS-5141-
07-28-75. Raleigh, N.C. 1975.
(4) North Carolina State Board of Health, Public Health Statistics Section. Test conducted in compliance with
procedures of the National Office of Vital Statistics, 1963.
(5) Buescher, P.A.; Taylor, K.P.; Davis, M.H.; and Bowling, J.M. "The Quality of the New Birth Certificate
Data: A Validation Study in North Carolina." American Journal of Public Health, No. 83: 1993. 1 163-
1165.
(6) North Carolina Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Epidemiology,
Vital Records Section. "Hospital Handbook on Births, Deaths and Fetal Deaths Registration." Raleigh,
N.C, 1993.
(7) Grove, R.D. and Hetzel, A.M. Vital Statistics Rates in the United States: 1940-1960. Public Health Service
Publication No. 1677. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1968.
(8) Spiegelman, M. Introduction to Demography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1969.
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STATE
TABLE
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
NORTH CAROLINA
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
NUMBER
1998
RATE*
1998 94-98
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
7547090 100.0 100.0
3659249 48.5 48.4
3887841 51.5 51.6
43833 5.8 5.4
5725968 100.0 100.0
2809087 49.1 49.0
2916881 50.9 51.0
27363 4.8 4.4
1821122 100.0 100.0
850162 46.7 46.7
970960 53.3 53.3
16470 9.0 8.7
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
111631 14 8 14 4
57060 7 6 7 4
54571 7 2 7
102797 92 1 93 5
47 1
8352 7 5 6
435 4 4
9870 8 8 8 8
36592 32 8 32 1
16584 14 9 15 7
24338 21 8 21 7
112785 100 100
110495 98 98 1
79236 13.8 13.4
40629 7.1 6.9
38607 6.7 6.5
72936 92 93 4
27 1
5945 7 5 6 2
328 4 4
5578 7 6 9
16495 20 8 19 1
12968 16 4 17 4
17116 21 6 21 8
32395 17.8 17.6
16431 9.0 9.0
15964 8.8 8.6
29861 92 2 93 9
20 1 1
2407 7 4 5 7
107 3 3
4292 13 2 13 2
20097 62 62 8
3616 11 2 11 7
7222 22 3 21 7
80244 100.0 100.0
78357 97.6 97.8
32541 100.0 100.0
32138 98.8 98.8
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
1628 14.5 14.7 847 10.6 10.9
905 8.0 8.2 502 6.3 6.1
723 6.5 6.5 345 4.4 4.7
314 2.8 2.8 165 2.1 2.2
1037 9.3 9.4 510 6.4 6.9
781 23.8 23.8
403 12.3 13.1
378 11.7 10.8
149 4.7 4.4
527 16.3 15.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
67798 9 9
33880 9 3 9 4
33918 8 7 8 6
1176 2 3 2 3
255 2 3
948 9 1
1403 1 2 1 4
2785 2 3 2 4
4574 4 6 4 9
7647 11 2 11 8
49010 51 50 6
35382 52 2 53 7
17201 25 4 23 4
15215 22 4 22 8
68737 100 100
66595 96 9 96 9
51873 9.1 9.0
25826 9.2 9.2
26047 8.9 8.8
598 1 7 1 7
166 2 2
612 8 8
803 9 1
1649 1 8 1 8
2950 3 8 4
5570 9 9 10 4
39525 49 4 49 1
25877 49.9 51.6
13940 26.9 24.8
12056 23.2 23.6
52678 100.0 100.0
50894 96.6 96.6
15925 8.7 8.9
8054 9.5 9.9
7871 8.1 7.9
578 3 7 3 4
89 3 3
336 1 1 1 3
600 2 1 2 4
1136 4 1 4 4
1624 7 7 8 5
2077 17 2 18
9485 59 58 3
9505 59.7 60.6
3261 20.5 19.1
3159 19.8 20.3
16059 100.0 100.0
15701 97.8 97.6
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
64123
36965
8.5
4.9
8.3
5.0
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
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Perinatal Care Regions
REGION
TABLES
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SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
P.C. REGION I - WESTERN
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
629296 8.3 8..4
302338 48.0 48,.0
326958 52.0 52 .0
350 0.6 .2
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
585349 10.2 10.3
281009 48.0 48.0
304340 52.0 52.0
92 0.2 -0.2
43947 2.4 2.4
21329 48.5 48.4
22618 51.5 51.6
258 5.9 5.2
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
7562 12.0 11.6 6880 11.8 11.3 682 15.5 15.5
3885 6.2 6.0 3522 6.0 5.8 363 8.3 7.9
3677 5.8 5.6 3358 5.7 5.5 319 7.3 7.6
6926 91.6 92.3 6286 91.4 92.1 640 93.8 95.0
6 0.1 0.1 5 0.1 0.1 1 0.1 0.2
581 7.7 6.9 542 7.9 7.2 39 5.7 4.7
49 0.6 0.7 47 0.7 0.7 2 0.3 0.2
573 7.6 7.6 511 7.4 7.2 62 9.1 11.4
2134 28.2 27.2 1678 24.4 23.0 456 66.9 68.5
1573 20.8 22.1 1473 21.4 22.8 100 14.7 15.5
1505 19.9 19.7 1348 19.6 19.6 157 23.0 21.4
7401 6.6 6.6 6719 8.4 8.4 682 2.1 2.1
FETAL& INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
96 12.6 13.1 87 12.5 12.4
62 8.1 7.2 58 8.4 6.9
34 4.5 5.9 29 4.2 5.6
22 2.9 2.9 18 2.6 2.4
56 7.4 8.8 47 6.8 8.0
9 13.1 19.4
4 5.8 10.5
5 7.3 9.1
4 5.9 7.6
9 13.2 16.6
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 7212 11.5 11.5 6788 11.6 11..5 424 9.6 10.3
MALES 3622 12.0 12.2 3415 12.2 12.,3 207 9.7 10.7
FEMALES 3590 11.0 10.8 3373 11.1 10..9 217 9.6 9.9
AGE
00-04 YEARS 68 1.9 2.1 55 1.8 2.,0 13 3.4 3.5
05-14 YEARS 20 0.3 0.3 18 0.3 0.,3 2 0.3 0.2
15-24 YEARS 58 0.8 0.9 52 0.8 0.,8 6 0.9 1.4
25-34 YEARS 92 1.1 1.3 78 1.1 1.,2 14 2.3 2.0
35-44 YEARS 209 2.3 2.3 173 2.1 2,.1 36 5.7 4.9
45-54 YEARS 424 4.9 4.5 383 4.7 4..3 41 8.0 8.2
55-64 YEARS 702 9.9 10.4 644 9.5 10.,0 58 18.3 19.7
65 AND OVER 5639 47.7 48.5 5385 47.4 48..0 254 55.2 60.3
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 3146 43.6 46.1 2933 43.2 45,,7 213 50.2 51.7
OTHER INSTITUTION 2288 31.7 30.5 2179 32.1 30.,7 109 25.7 28.0
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 1778 24.7 23.4 1676 24.7 23 .6 102 24.1 20.3
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 7326 10.7 10.7 6900 13.1 13 .2 426 2.7 2.8
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
6337
3237
10.1
5.1
9.4
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-1
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
P.C. REGION II - NORTHWESTERN
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-•98
1926213 25.5 25.,6
930519 48.3 48,.2
995694 51.7 51,.8
8751 4.5 4..1
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
1609430 28.1 28.3
782765 48.6 48.6
826665 51.4 51.4
6059 3.8 3.3
RATE*
1998 94-98
316783 17.4 17.3
147754 46.6 46.6
169029 53.4 53.4
2692 8.5 8.6
LIVE BIRTHS
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
26696 13.9 13.4 21298 13.2 12.6 5398 17.0 17.3
13685 7.1 6.9 10933 6.8 6.5 2752 8.7 8.9
13011 6.8 6.5 10365 6.4 6.1 2646 8.4 8.5
24970 93.5 94.6 19986 93.8 94.7 4984 92.3 94.1
7 0.0 0.0 6 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.1
1604 6.0 5.0 1208 5.7 4.8 396 7.3 5.6
115 0.4 0.4 98 0.5 0.4 17 0.3 0.3
2369 8.9 8.7 1672 7.9 7.4 697 12.9 13.4
8139 30.5 30.0 4822 22.6 21.1 3317 61.4 63.1
4873 18.3 18.9 4183 19.6 20.4 690 12.8 13.4
5838 21.9 22.5 4709 22.1 22.7 1129 20.9 22.0
26409 23.4 23.6 21029 26.2 26.4 5380 16.5 17.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
349 13.0 14.2 244 11.4 11.5
199 7.4 7.9 143 6.7 6.7
150 5.6 6.3 101 4.7 4.8
62 2.3 3.0 45 2.1 2.5
212 7.9 9.3 146 6.9 7.4
105 19.3 24.1
56 10.3 12.5
49 9.1 11.7
17 3.2 4.9
66 12.2 16.6
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 17945 9.3 9.,3 15239 9..5 9 .4 2706 8 .5 8..8
MALES 8911 9.6 9,,7 7574 9..7 9.,7 1337 9..0 9,.8
FEMALES 9034 9.1 8,.8 7665 9,.3 9 .0 1369 8 .1 7.,9
AGE
00-04 YEARS 242 2.0 2..2 173 1..8 1,.9 69 2..5 3..5
05-14 YEARS 67 0.3 0,.2 44 0..2 0,.2 23 0..4 0,.4
15-24 YEARS 218 0.9 0,.9 167 0..8 0..8 51 1..0 1,,2
25-34 YEARS 319 1.1 1 .3 219 .9 1 .1 100 2 .1 2 .4
35-44 YEARS 642 2.1 2..1 475 1,.8 1 .8 167 3 .4 4..0
45-54 YEARS 1114 4.2 4..5 807 3 ,6 3..9 307 8 .2 8..1
55-64 YEARS 2115 11.4 11,.5 1729 10 .5 10,.6 386 17,.7 18..1
65 AND OVER 13228 50.4 50,.0 11625 49.,5 49,.0 1603 58,.3 58..5
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 9171 51.1 53,.5 7632 50..1 52..4 1539 56,.9 59..5
OTHER INSTITUTION 4776 26.6 23..6 4171 27,.4 24.,3 605 22,.4 19,.8
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 3998 22.3 22 .8 3436 22..5 23..2 562 20..8 20,.6
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 18224 26.5 26..3 15416 29..3 29 . 1 2808 17..5 17,.5
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
16395
9791
8.5
5.1
8.5
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-2
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
P.C. REGION III - SOUTHWESTERN
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
1266876 16.8 16..6
613143 48.4 48,,3
653733 51.6 51,.7
9594 7.6 6..9
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
981376 17.1 17.0
480240 48.9 48.8
501136 51.1 51.2
6180 6.3 5.7
285500 15.7 15.4
132903 46.6 46.5
152597 53.4 53.5
3414 12.0 11.1
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
19897 15 .7 15 .1
10265 8.,1 7 .8
9632 7,.6 7 .3
18151 91..2 92..5
9 .0 .0
1662 8 .4 7 .0
75 0..4 .4
1769 8..9 8 .8
6343 31 .9 30 .8
2571 12 .9 14..2
4390 22..1 21 .4
22123 19..6 19 .0
14274 14.5 14.0
7368 7.5 7.2
6906 7.0 6.8
12971 90,.9 92 .1
4 0.,0 ,0
1235 8,.7 7..4
64 0..4 .5
1007 7,.1 7..1
2850 20..0 18 .0
2042 14,.3 15..6
3137 22,.0 21 .7
5623 19.7 19.1
2897 10.1 9.8
2726 9.5 9.3
5180 92 .1 93,.6
5 .1 0,.0
427 7 .6 6,.1
11 .2 0,.3
762 13 .6 13,.3
3493 62 .1 63,.3
529 9..4 10,.5
1253 22 .3 20,.5
16245 20.2 19.7 5878 18.1 17.2
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
307 15.3 13.9 154 10.7 10.5
187 9.3 8.6 94 6.5 6.3
120 6.0 5.3 60 4.2 4.2
38 1.9 2.3 19 1.3 1.6
158 7.9 7.6 79 5.5 5.8
153 26.8 22.4
93 16.3 14.4
60 10.7 8.2
19 3.4 3.9
79 14.0 12.0
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 10303 8.1 8.2 8094 8.2 8 .3 2209 7..7 8 .0
MALES 5083 8.3 8.5 3936 8.2 8 .4 1147 8 .6 9.,1
FEMALES 5220 8.0 7.9 4158 8.3 8 .2 1062 7 .0 7..1
AGE
00-04 YEARS 184 2.0 1.9 95 1.5 1 .5 89 3 ,4 2,.9
05-14 YEARS 38 0.2 0.2 32 0.2 .2 6 0..1 0..3
15-24 YEARS 162 1.0 1.0 92 0.8 .8 70 1..6 1..5
25-34 YEARS 238 1.2 1.4 150 1.0 1 .0 88 1 .8 2 .7
35-44 YEARS 478 2.2 2.4 283 1.7 1 .7 195 4..3 4..9
45-54 YEARS 731 4.3 4.7 465 3.4 3 .7 266 8..1 9..0
55-64 YEARS 1145 10.7 11.7 851 9.5 10 .4 294 17,.0 18..5
65 AND OVER 7327 52.0 51.5 6126 50.6 50 .2 1201 60,.2 59,.1
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 5341 51.8 53.0 4052 50.1 51..0 1289 58,.4 60,.2
OTHER INSTITUTION 2607 25.3 23.0 2147 26.5 2a,.3 460 20.,8 18,.1
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 2355 22.9 24.0 1895 23.4 24 .7 460 20,.8 21..7
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 10701 15.6 15.6 8450 16.0 16 .1 2251 14,.0 14..0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
9643
6134
7.6
4.8
7.3
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-3
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
P.C. REGION IV NORTHEASTERN
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
1414193 18.7 18..4
682742 48.3 48,,2
731451 51.7 51,.8
10339 7.3 6..9
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
1035779 18.1 17.7
505968 48.8 48.8
529811 51.2 51.2
6995 6.8 6.2
378414 20.8 20.5
176774 46.7 46.7
201640 53.3 53.3
3344 8.8 8.7
LIVE BIRTHS
3. TOTAL 21254 15,,0 14.,6 14711 14,.2 13 .6 6543 17.,3 17,,2
MALES 10827 7,,7 7..5 7505 7,.2 7.,0 3322 8.,8 8,,8
FEMALES 10427 7,.4 7..1 7206 7,.0 6 .6 3221 8..5 8,,4
4. ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL 20355 95,.8 96..8 14010 95,.2 96 .2 6345 97,,0 98,.1
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL 9 0,.0 0..0 6 .0 .0 3 0,,0 0,.1
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE 825 3,.9 2..8 644 4,.4 3 .4 181 2..8 1,,6
OTHER ATTENDANT 65 0,.3 0..3 51 0,,3 .4 14 0,,2 0,.3
5. LOW BIRTHWEIGHT 1825 8,.6 8,.5 920 6 .3 6 .3 905 13,,8 13,.3
6. OUT OF WEDLOCK 6123 28..8 28 .7 2469 16,.8 15 .1 3654 55,.8 57 .9
7. MOTHER SMOKED 2156 10..1 11,.1 1458 9..9 11 .0 698 10,,7 11,.2
8. C-SECTION 4623 21..8 21,.4 3116 21 .2 21,.3 1507 23,,0 21,.4
9. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 21994 19 .5 19,.0 15166 18 .9 18 .3 6828 21,.0 20 ,7
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
332 15.5 14.9 157 10.6 10.2
17 6 8.2 8.2 86 5.8 5.5
156 7.3 6.7 71 4.8 4.7
62 2.9 2.8 36 2.5 2.0
218 10.3 9.5 107 7.3 6.7
175 26.4 24.8
90 13.6 14.0
85 13.0 10.9
26 4.0 4.4
111 17.0 15.3
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18,
TOTAL 10915 7.7 7.7 7716 7.4 7.4 3199 8.5 8.5
MALES 5405 7.9 8.0 3771 7.5 7.5 1634 9.2 9.6
FEMALES 5510 7.5 7.4 3945 7.4 7.4 1565 7.8 7.6
AGE
00-04 YEARS 244 2.5 2.2 122 1.9 1.6 122 3.9 3.5
05-14 YEARS 44 0.2 0.2 31 0.2 0.2 13 0.2 0.3
15-24 YEARS 148 0.7 0.8 86 0.6 0.7 62 1.0 1.1
25-34 YEARS 247 1.1 1.2 122 0.7 0.9 125 2.0 2.2
35-44 YEARS 508 2.2 2.3 261 1.5 1.5 247 4.1 4.4
45-54 YEARS 763 4.0 4.4 452 3.1 3.4 311 6.9 7.9
55-64 YEARS 1161 10.2 11.1 756 8.5 9.3 405 16.6 17.4
65 AND OVER 7800 51.7 50.5 5886 49.7 48.7 1914 58.8 57.0
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 5636 51.6 52.0 3824 49.6 49.9 1812 56.6 57.2
OTHER INSTITUTION 2882 26.4 24.9 2128 27.6 26.4 754 23.6 21.3
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 2397 22.0 23.1 1764 22.9 23.7 633 19.8 21.5
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 12153 17.7 17.5 8610 16.3 16.1 3543 22.1 22.0
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
10543
6223
7.5
4.4
7.6
4.5
SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-4
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
P.C. REGION V - SOUTHEASTERN
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L W H I T E M I N O R I T Y
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98 1998 1998 94--98 1998 1998 94--98
1087091 14.4 14 5 710421 12.4 12 5 376670 20.7 20 8
528696 48.6 48 7 352337 49.6 49 6 176359 46.8 46 9
558395 51.4 51 3 358084 50.4 50 4 200311 53.2 53 1
7955 7.3 7 1 4183 5.9 5 7 3772 10.0 9 7
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
17694 16 3 16
8984 8 3 8 2
8710 8 7 8
15287 86 4 91 4
6
2302 13 8 2
99 6 4
1647 9 3 9
6772 38 3 37
2887 16 3 16 9
3953 22 3 22
16876 15 15 3
10740 15.1 14.8
5527 7.8 7.6
5213 7.3 7.2
9401 87 5 92 7
1
1289 12 6 9
49 5 3
745 6 9 6 6
2425 22 6 20 7
1957 18 2 19 1
2360 22 21 5
6954 18.5 18.2
3457 9.2 9.3
3497 9.3 8.9
5886 84 6 89 4
5 1 1
1013 14 6 10 1
50 7 5
902 13 12 6
4347 62 5 62 1
930 13 4 13 6
1593 22 9 22 7
10199 12.7 13.0 6677 20.5 20.7
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
251 14.1 15.2 109 10.1 10.9
133 7.5 8.4 68 6.3 6.0
118 6.7 6.9 41 3.8 4.9
58 3.3 3.0 22 2.1 2.3
176 9.9 9.8 63 5.9 7.1
142 20.2 21.7
65 9.3 11.9
77 11.1 9.9
36 5.2 4.1
113 16.2 14.0
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 9739 9.0 8.9 6557 9.2 9.1 3182 8.4 8 5
MALES 4956 9.4 9.4 3344 9.5 9.4 1612 9.1 9 4
FEMALES 4783 8.6 8.3 3213 9.0 8.7 1570 7.8 7 6
AGE
00-04 YEARS 189 2.3 2.4 70 1.5 1.9 119 3.6 3 1
05-14 YEARS 45 0.3 0.3 25 0.3 0.3 20 0.3 3
15-24 YEARS 178 1.1 1.2 103 1.0 1.1 75 1.2 1 5
25-34 YEARS 251 1.6 1.6 124 1.2 1.3 127 2.3 2 3
35-44 YEARS 454 2.8 2.8 234 2.2 2.1 220 4.0 4 2
45-54 YEARS 728 5.4 5.6 412 4.4 4.6 316 7.4 8
55-64 YEARS 1143 11.7 12.6 740 10.2 11.0 403 15.8 17 2
65 AND OVER 6751 49.8 49.4 4849 47.2 46.9 1902 58.2 57 1
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 5365 55.1 56.3 3380 51.5 53.7 1985 62.4 61 6
OTHER INSTITUTION 2219 22.8 20.8 1632 24.9 22.1 587 18.4 18 3
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 2155 22.1 22.9 1545 23.6 24.3 610 19.2 20 2
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 9119 13.3 13.3 6136 11.6 11.6 2983 18.6 18 5
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
9369
5768
8.6
5.3
8.1
5.4
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-5
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
P.C. REGION VI - EASTERN
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98
1223421 16.2 16.,5
601811 49.2 49,.2
621610 50.8 50..8
6844 5.6 5..4
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
803613 14.0 14.3
406768 50.6 50.6
396845 49.4 49.4
3854 4.8 4.7
RATE*
1998 94-98
419808 23.1 23.5
195043 46.5 46.5
224765 53.5 53.5
2990 7.1 6.9
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
18528 15.1 14.9 11333 14.1 13.9 7195 17.1 16.9
9414 7.7 7.6 5774 7.2 7.1 3640 8.7 8.6
9114 7.4 7.3 5559 6.9 6.8 3555 8.5 8.4
17108 92.3 92.0 10282 90.7 90.3 6826 94.9 94.6
10 0.1 0.2 5 0.0 0.2 5 0.1 0.1
1378 7.4 7.5 1027 9.1 9.2 351 4.9 4.9
32 0.2 0.3 19 0.2 0.3 13 0.2 0.3
1687 9.1 9.3 723 6.4 6.6 964 13.4 13.5
7081 38.2 37.1 2251 19.9 18.1 4830 67.1 66.9
2524 13.6 14.3 1855 16.4 17.3 669 9.3 9.6
4029 21.7 21.9 2446 21.6 22.1 1583 22.0 21.6
17982 15.9 16.5 10886 13.6 14.1 7096 21.8 22.3
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
293 15.7 16.3 96 8.4 10.1
148 7.9 8.4 53 4.7 5.4
145 7.8 8.0 43 3.8 4.7
72 3.9 3.1 25 2.2 2.3
217 11.7 11.0 68 6.0 6.9
197 27.0 26.0
95 13.0 13.1
102 14.2 13.2
47 6.6 4.4
149 20.7 17.5
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
11684 9.6 9.5
5903 9.8 9.9
5781 9.3 9.1
249 2.9 2.7
41 0.2 0.3
184 1.0 1.0
256 1.4 1.4
494 2.6 2.8
814 5.4 5.8
1381 13.0 13.3
8265 54.0 53.7
6723 57.5 58.7
2429 20.8 20.0
2532 21.7 21.3
7479 9.3 9.2
3786 9.3 9.3
3693 9.3 9.2
83 1.6 1.7
16 0.2 0.2
112 0.9 0.9
110 0.9 1.0
223 1.8 1.9
431 4.1 4.3
850 11.0 11.2
5654 51.5 51.4
11214 16.3 16.5
4056 54.2 55.6
1683 22.5 21.6
1740 23.3 22.8
7166 13.6 13.8
4205 10.0 10.0
2117 10.9 11.3
2088 9.3 8.9
166 4..8 4 .0
25 0..3 .4
72 1,.1 1..4
146 2.,5 2 .3
271 4..2 4..5
383 8..2 9 .3
531 18..5 18..8
2611 60..3 59,.5
2667 63..4 64..2
746 17..7 17..2
792 18..8 18..6
4048 25.2 25.2
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
11836
5812
9.7
4.8
9.6
4.8
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
3-6
COUNTY
TABLES
CO
CD
OO
ctf
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
ALAMANCE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER
1998
RATE*
1998 94--98
121664
57883
63781
427
1.6
47.6
52.4
3.5
1.
47
52.
3,
.6
.5
.5
.1
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
96712 1.7 1.7
46480 48.1 48.0
50232 51.9 52.0
263 2.7 2.5
24952 1.4 1.4
11403 45.7 45.8
13549 54.3 54.2
164 6.6 5.5
LIVE BIRTHS
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1656 13.6 13.3 1284 13.3 12.8 372 14.9 15.3
848 7.0 6.7 647 6.7 6.5 201 8.1 7.5
808 6.6 6.6 637 6.6 6.3 171 6.9 7.7
1459 88.1 93.6 1135 88.4 93.4 324 87.1 94.1
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
187 11.3 5.8 141 11.0 5.9 46 12.4 5.4
10 0.6 0.6 8 0.6 0.6 2 0.5 0.5
140 8.5 9.0 89 6.9 7.6 51 13.7 13.7
547 33.0 32.6 309 24.1 22.1 238 64.0 66.9
325 19.6 17.5 262 20.4 18.5 63 16.9 14.2
371 22.4 21.8 274 21.3 21.7 97 26.1 22.1
1182 1.0 1.0 903 1.1 1.1 279 0.9 0.8
1063 89.9 90.3 805 89.1 89.1 258 92.5 94.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
27 16.1 16.3 14 10.8 12.7 13 34.3 27.8
16 9.6 10.4 9 7.0 7.9 7 18.5 18.2
11 6.6 6.0 5 3.9 4.8 6 16.1 9.8
7 4.3 2.8 5 3.9 2.3 2 5.5 4.4
18 10.9 8.8 10 7.8 7 .2 8 21.5 14.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15.
16,
17,
18.
TOTAL 1229 10.1 10.2 1021 10.6 10.3 208 8.3 9..8
MALES 581 10.0 10.5 491 10.6 10.4 90 7.9 10.,9
FEMALES 648 10.2 9.9 530 10.6 10.1 118 8.7 8..9
AGE
00-04 YEARS 21 2.8 2.1 11 2.0 1.8 10 5.5 3.,3
05-14 YEARS 4 0.2 0.1 4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.,1
15-24 YEARS 10 0.7 0.7 7 0.6 0.7 3 1.0 0..8
25-34 YEARS 15 0.9 1.3 11 0.8 1.0 4 1.0 2., 1
35-44 YEARS 35 1.8 2.4 20 1.3 1.9 15 3.8 4.,5
45-54 YEARS 73 4.5 4.8 53 4.0 4.0 20 6.3 8,,3
55-64 YEARS 130 11.0 11.2 104 10.7 9.9 26 12.4 17..1
65 AND OVER 941 49.2 49.3 811 49.4 48.3 130 48.0 55. 5
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 655 53.3 50.8 522 51.1 49.4 133 63.9 56..3
OTHER INSTITUTION 316 25.7 24.6 284 27.8 25.8 32 15.4 19.,8
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 258 21.0 24.6 215 21.1 24.8 43 20.7 23..9
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 1009 1.5 1.5 844 1.6 1.6 165 1.0 1.,2
TO RESIDENTS 925 91.7 92.1 778 92.2 92.6 147 89.1 90..1
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
997
662
8.2
5.4
8.5
5.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-1
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
ALEXANDER COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
31902 0.4 0..4
15923 49.9 49,.8
15979 50.1 50,.2
143 4.5 4,.7
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
29880 0.5 0.5
14979 50.1 50.0
14901 49.9 50.0
138 4.6 4.6
2022 0.1 0.1
944 46.7 46.9
1078 53.3 53.1
5 2.5 5.1
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
423 13.3 13.0 394 13,.2 12 .9 29 14,,3 14.7
220 6.9 6.6 205 6 .9 6 .5 15 7,.4 7.8
203 6.4 6.4 189 6,.3 6 ,4 14 6,,9 6.9
384 90.8 94.4 355 90,. 1 94 .2 29 100,,0 97.2
0.0 0.0 0,.0 .0 0.,0 0.0
32 7.6 4.9 32 8 .1 5 .0 0,,0 2.8
7 1.7 0.7 7 1,.8 .8 0,,0 0.0
27 6.4 8.4 25 6 .3 7 .9 2 6..9 13.9
102 24.1 23.4 89 22,.6 21..0 13 44.,8 54.9
85 20.1 19.2 83 21,.1 20 .2 2 6,,9 6.9
102 24.1 24.4 99 25,.1 24 .7 3 10,,3 19.4
6 0.0 0.0 6 0,,0 0,.0 0,,0 0.0
6 100.0 100.0 6 100,.0 100..0 100.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
6 14.1 14.4 5 12.6 13.9 1 33.3 20.5
3 7.0 8.0 2 5.1 7.5 1 33.3 13.7
3 7.1 6.5 3 7.6 6.5 0.0 6.9
2 4.8 3.5 2 5.1 3.3 0.0 7.0
5 11.8 10.0 5 12.7 9.7 0.0 13.9
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
280 8.8 8.3 256 8.6 8.2 24 11.9 9.6
150 9.4 9.1 134 8.9 8.9 16 16.9 13.1
130 8.1 7.5 122 8.2 7.6 8 7.4 6.5
5 2.4 2.9 5 2.7 2.9 0.0 2.1
0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0
5 1.2 1.4 3 0.8 1.4 2 7.0 1.3
5 1.0 1.1 4 0.9 1.1 1 3.3 2.0
9 1.8 2.9 7 1.5 2.5 2 7.4 10.2
15 3.4 3.8 12 2.8 3.7 3 11.9 4.9
41 12.4 10.6 38 12.2 10.4 3 16.3 13.9
200 49.9 47.3 187 49.2 46.8 13 62.5 56.6
149 53.2 55.6 135 52.7 55.0 14 58.3 62.8
56 20.0 18.2 49 19.1 18.2 7 29.2 19.1
75 26.8 26.2 72 28.1 26.9 3 12.5 18.1
174 0.3 0.3 161 0.3 0.3 13 0.1 0.1
156 89.7 84.9 144 89.4 85.0 12 92.3 83.6
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
228
124
7.1
3.9
7.4
4.3
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-2
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
ALLEGHANY COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
UMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
9854 0.1 1
4765 48.4 48 3
5089 51.6 51 7
-19 -1.9 -3 9
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
9684 0.2 0.2
4685 48.4 48.3
4999 51.6 51.7
-16 -1.7 -3.6
170 0.0 0.0
80 47.1 47.5
90 52.9 52.5
-3 -17.6 -23.4
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
110 11.2 9.7 109 11.3 9.8 1 5.9 5.8
54 5.5 4.8 53 5.5 4.8 1 5.9 3.5
56 5.7 4.9 56 5.8 5.0 0.0 2.3
110 100.0 99.2 109 100.0 99.1 1 100.0 100.0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.6 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
7 6.4 6.6 7 6.4 6.7 0.0 0.0
27 24.5 18.5 26 23.9 17.8 1 100.0 80.0
25 22.7 24.0 25 22.9 24.0 0.0 20.0
19 17.3 18.5 19 17.4 18.7 0.0 0.0
30 0.0 0.0 29 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.0
24 80.0 87.7 23 79.3 87.4 1 100.0 100.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1 9.1 14.7 1 9.2 14.8
0.0 12.6 0.0 12.7
1 9.1 2.1 1 9.2 2.1
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1 9.1 2.1 1 9.2 2.1
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
129 13.1 13.6 125 12.9 13.4 4 23.5 29 2
70 14.7 14.8 69 14.7 14.4 1 12.5 36 9
59 11.6 12.6 56 11.2 12.4 3 33.3 22 3
1 2.2 0.8 1 2.2 0.8 0.0
0.0 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.0
1 1.0 1.3 1 1.0 1.3 0.0
0.0 0.7 0.0 0.3 0.0 15 3
2 1.4 1.7 2 1.5 1.6 0.0 7 5
5 3.6 5.1 5 3.7 4.7 0.0 23 3
22 18.1 14.1 21 17.5 13.4 1 58.8 52 6
98 48.0 53.1 95 47.1 52.3 3 115.4 116 7
81 62.8 67.0 80 64.0 67.6 1 25.0 52
18 14.0 13.3 15 12.0 12.6 3 75.0 32
30 23.3 19.7 30 24.0 19.8 0.0 16
112 0.2 0.2 108 0.2 0.2 4 0.0
94 83.9 83.4 91 84.3 83.4 3 75.0 84
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
123
59
12.5
6.0
13.5
5.6
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-3
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
ANSON COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
24024 0.3 0,,3
11267 46.9 46 .9
12757 53.1 53,.1
84 3.5 2,.6
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
12260 0.2 0.2
5953 48.6 48.4
6307 51.4 51.6
25 2.0 -1.5
11764 0.6 0.7
5314 45.2 45.2
6450 54.8 54.8
59 5.0 6.9
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
339 14.1 14.0 148 12.1 10.1 191 16.2 18.1
181 7.5 7.0 78 6.4 5.1 103 8.8 9.0
158 6.6 6.9 70 5.7 4.9 88 7.5 9.0
312 92.0 97.3 138 93.2 98.2 174 91.1 96.8
0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
26 7.7 1.9 9 6.1 1.5 17 8.9 2.2
1 0.3 0.7 1 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.9
42 12.4 11.8 13 8.8 7.3 29 15.2 14.4
182 53.7 55.1 31 20.9 19.5 151 79.1 76.0
41 12.1 16.1 22 14.9 21.3 19 9.9 13.0
87 25.7 23.2 36 24.3 23.5 51 26.7 23.0
2 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.0
2 100.0 90.0 1 100.0 100.0 1 100.0 87.5
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
8 23.3 20.1 4 26.5 19.2
4 11.7 13.6 3 19.9 14.4
4 11.8 6.6 1 6.8 4.9
3 9.0 4.8 0.0 3.3
7 20.6 11.4 1 6.8 8.1
4 20.8 20.6
1 5.2 13.1
3 15.7 7.6
3 16.0 5.7
6 31.4 13.3
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
255 10.6 11.3 123 10.0 11.5 132 11.2 11.2
138 12.2 12.3 73 12.3 12.1 65 12.2 12.5
117 9.2 10.5 50 7.9 11.0 67 10.4 10.1
8 5.2 2.8 1 1.7 1.7 7 7.4 3.4
1 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 1 0.5 0.3
5 1.6 1.6 1 0.7 1.2 4 2.3 1.9
5 1.5 2.0 1 0.6 0.9 4 2.4 3.1
19 5.4 4.4 9 5.1 3.5 10 5.8 5.4
23 7.2 8.3 10 5.7 5.4 13 8.9 12.2
22 9.9 11.7 7 4.9 7.7 15 19.3 18.8
172 44.8 49.3 94 39.4 46.5 78 53.5 54.0
170 66.7 64.6 70 56.9 56.7 100 75.8 73.2
42 16.5 17.0 22 17.9 19.7 20 15.2 14.0
43 16.9 18.4 31 25.2 23.7 12 9.1 12.8
171 0.2 0.3 87 0.2 0.2 84 0.5 0.5
165 96.5 95.8 83 95.4 94.5 82 97.6 97.6
OTHER EVENTS
19.
20.
MARRIAGES
DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
163
81
6.8
3.4
5.7
4.4
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-4
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
ASHE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
23698 0.3 3
11506 48.6 48 5
12192 51.4 51 5
-49 -2.1 -1 5
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
23507 0.4 0.4
11415 48.6 48.5
12092 51.4 51.5
-48 -2.0 -1.5
191 0.0 0.0
91 47.6 47.3
100 52.4 52.7
-1 -5.2 -8.2
LIVE BIRTHS
3. TOTAL 237 10 10 3 235 10 10 3 2 "10 5 9 2
MALES 120 5 1 5 3 119 5 1 5 3 1 5 2 5 1
FEMALES 117 4 9 5 116 4 9 5 1 5 2 4 1
4. ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL 236 99 6 99 1 234 99 6 99 1 2 100 100
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL 1 1
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE 2 3
OTHER ATTENDANT 1 4 6 1 4 6
5. LOW BIRTHWEIGHT 18 7 6 8 1 18 7 7 8 1 11 1
6. OUT OF WEDLOCK 51 21 5 22 7 50 21 3 22 4 1 50 66 7
7. MOTHER SMOKED 56 23 6 21 9 54 23 21 5 2 100 66 7
8. C-SECTION 59 24 9 22 8 59 25 1 22 8 22 2
9. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 115 1 1 113 1 1 2
TO RESIDENTS 103 89 6 91 5 101 89 4 91 4 2 100 100
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
5 20.8 17.3 5 21.0 15.0
3 12.5 9.1 3 12.6 8.3
2 8.4 8.3 2 8.5 6.7
1 4.3 3.4 1 4.3 3.4
3 12.7 11.6 3 12.8 10.1
0.0 300.0
0.0 100.0
0.0 222.2
0.0 0.0
0.0 222.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17
18.
TOTAL 286 12.1 11.8 283 12.0 11.8 3 15.7 17.4
MALES 144 12.5 12.6 142 12.4 12.6 2 22.0 17.4
FEMALES 142 11.6 11.1 141 11.7 11.0 1 10.0 17.5
AGE
00-04 YEARS 3 2.6 2.5 3 2.7 2.1 0.0 23.0
05-14 YEARS 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
15-24 YEARS 2 0.8 0.7 2 0.8 0.6 0.0 14.1
25-34 YEARS 5 1.7 1.4 5 1.7 1.4 0.0 0.0
35-44 YEARS 11 3.1 2.2 11 3.1 2.2 0.0 0.0
45-54 YEARS 13 3.7 4.9 13 3.8 4.9 0.0 0.0
55-64 YEARS 34 11.5 10.7 33 11.2 10.7 1 52.6 20.6
65 AND OVER 218 48.4 49.2 216 48.3 49.1 2 57.1 64.0
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 164 57.3 58.9 163 57.6 58.9 1 33.3 58.8
OTHER INSTITUTION 51 17.8 18.1 50 17.7 18.0 1 33.3 29.4
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 71 24.8 23.0 70 24.7 23.1 1 33.3 11.8
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 238 0.3 0.4 236 0.4 0.5 2 0.0 0.0
TO RESIDENTS 218 91.6 93.0 217 91.9 93.2 1 50.0 76.5
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
227
130
9.6
5.5
9.0
5.6
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-5
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
AVERY COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
15319 0.2 .2
7686 50.2 50..2
7633 49.8 49 .8
-19 -1.2 -0..1
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
15125 0.3 0.3
7550 49.9 49.9
7575 50.1 50.1
-19 -1.3 -0.0
194 0.0 0.0
136 70.1 69.0
58 29.9 31.0
0.0 -3.0
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C -SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
172 11.2 11.6 171 11.3 11.7 1 5.2 5.0
84 5.5 6.0 84 5.6 6.0 0.0 3.0
88 5.7 5.7 87 5.8 5.7 1 5.2 2.0
168 97.7 98.5 167 97.7 98.5 1 100.0 100.0
0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
2 1.2 0.9 2 1.2 0.9 0.0 0.0
2 1.2 0.5 2 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.0
19 11.0 9.0 19 11.1 9.1 0.0 0.0
37 21.5 19.6 37 21.6 19.5 0.0 40.0
47 27.3 21.8 47 27.5 21.9 0.0 20.0
48 27.9 26.9 48 28.1 26.8 0.0 40.0
134 0.1 0.2 133 0.2 0.2 1 0.0 0.0
93 69.4 64.9 92 69.2 64.9 1 100.0 66.7
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
1 5.8 20.0 1 5.8 20.1
0.0 12.2 0.0 12.3
1 5.8 7.9 1 5.8 7.9
1 5.8 4.5 1 5.9 4.6
2 11.6 12.4 2 11.7 12.5
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 191 12.5 11.7 190 12.6 11.7 1 5.2 8.0
MALES 94 12.2 11.9 93 12.3 11.9 1 7.4 10.2
FEMALES 97 12.7 11.5 97 12.8 11.6 0.0 3.2
AGE
00-04 YEARS 3 3.7 3.0 3 3.7 3.0 0.0 0.0
05-14 YEARS 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
15-24 YEARS 1 0.4 0.4 1 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0
25-34 YEARS 5 2.5 1.0 5 2.6 1.0 0.0 0.0
35-44 YEARS 9 4.3 2.3 9 4.3 2.3 0.0 0.0
45-54 YEARS 10 4.6 5.1 10 4.7 5.2 0.0 0.0
55-64 YEARS 21 12.6 12.3 21 12.7 12.4 0.0 0.0
65 AND OVER 142 56.9 56.7 141 56.9 56.5 1 62.5 94.1
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 128 67.0 65.7 128 67.4 66.0 0.0 37.5
OTHER INSTITUTION 32 16.8 18.8 32 16.8 18.7 0.0 37.5
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 31 16.2 15.5 30 15.8 15.4 1 100.0 25.0
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 192 0.3 0.3 189 0.4 0.4 3 0.0 0.0
TO RESIDENTS 140 72.9 73.8 139 73.5 74.4 1 33.3 41.2
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
213
58
13.9
3.8
11.8
3.8
SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-6
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
BEAUFORT COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
43544 0.6 6
20582 47.3 47 2
22962 52.7 52 8
51 1.2 8
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
29975 0.5 0.5
14447 48.2 48.1
15528 51.8 51.9
-20 -0.7 -0.2
13569 0.7 0.8
6135 45.2 45.3
7434 54.8 54.7
71 5.2 3.0
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
587 13.5 12.9 352 11.7 11.5 235 "17.3 15.8
282 6.5 6.6 174 5.8 6.0 108 8.0 8.0
305 7.0 6.3 178 5.9 5.6 127 9.4 7.8
464 79.0 78.1 265 75.3 79.9 199 84.7 75.1
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
121 20.6 21.2 85 24.1 19.2 36 15.3 24.2
2 0.3 0.8 2 0.6 0.8 0.0 0.7
77 13.1 10.7 33 9.4 7.2 44 18.7 16.3
266 45.3 42.6 100 28.4 24.0 166 70.6 72.6
82 14.0 16.5 62 17.6 19.5 20 8.5 11.6
159 27.1 23.9 90 25.6 23.0 69 29.4 25.4
425 0.4 0.4 249 0.3 0.3 176 0.5 0.5
355 83.5 80.7 201 80.7 76.8 154 87.5 87.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15 25.3 21.3 5 14.2 11.0 10 41.8 37.5
5 8.4 11.7 1 2.8 4.6 4 16.7 22.9
10 17.0 9.7 4 11.4 6.4 6 25.5 15.0
1 1.7 3.3 0.0 1.8 1 4.4 5.7
11 18.7 12.9 4 11.4 8.1 7 29.8 20.6
15.
16,
17,
18,
TOTAL 536 12.3 12.1 372 12.4 11.7 164 12.1 12.8
MALES 274 13.3 12.8 196 13.6 12.4 78 12.7 13.9
FEMALES 262 11.4 11.4 176 11.3 11.1 86 11.6 11.9
AGE
00-04 YEARS 13 4.7 2.9 6 3.5 2.0 7 6.5 4.1
05-14 YEARS 1 0.2 0.4 1 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.4
15-24 YEARS 4 0.8 1.1 1 0.3 0.7 3 1.6 1.7
25-34 YEARS 10 1.9 1.7 3 0.8 0.9 7 4.3 3.5
35-44 YEARS 22 3.4 3.3 11 2.5 1.9 11 5.4 6.4
45-54 YEARS 39 6.3 6.2 22 4.8 5.2 17 10.8 9.5
55-64 YEARS 62 13.4 13.2 42 11.6 11.0 20 19.7 20.6
65 AND OVER 385 56.3 56.5 286 56.8 54.5 99 55.1 61.9
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 297 55.4 57.2 193 51.9 53.8 104 63.4 64.2
OTHER INSTITUTION 103 19.2 19.1 78 21.0 19.9 25 15.2 17.4
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 136 25.4 23.7 101 27.2 26.3 35 21.3 18.4
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 460 0.7 0.7 335 0.6 0.6 125 0.8 1.0
TO RESIDENTS 403 87.6 85.2 295 88.1 86.2 108 86.4 83.0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
393
201
9.0
4.6
10.1
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-7
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
ITEM
POPULATION
BERTIE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
20032 0.,3 .3 7296 .1 . 1
9129 45..6 45.,7 3453 47,.3 47,.4
10903 54.,4 54..3 3843 52 .7 52,.6
-22 -1,,1 0..5 -49 -6 .7 -6 .2
12736 0.7 0.7
5676 44.6 44.7
7060 55.4 55.3
27 2.1 4.3
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
240 12.0 13.4 53 7.3 9 .1 187 14.7 15.9
132 6.6 7.0 31 4.2 4 .7 101 7.9 8.4
108 5.4 6.4 22 3.0 4..4 86 6.8 7.5
226 94.2 94.5 48 90.6 91..8 178 95.2 95.4
0.0 0.1 0.0 0..0 0.0 0.1
13 5.4 5.2 5 9.4 8 .2 8 4.3 4.2
1 0.4 0.2 0.0 .0 1 0.5 0.3
37 15.4 12.5 6 11.3 7 .9 31 16.6 14.1
141 58.8 57.6 9 17.0 13,.5 132 70.6 72.2
15 6.3 8.2 6 11.3 14,.7 9 4.8 6.1
50 20.8 18.4 13 24.5 22..1 37 19.8 17.2
1 0.0 0.0 0.0 .0 1 0.0 0.0
1 100.0 100.0 1 100.0 100.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
3 12.4 16.0 0.0 11.7 3 16.0 17.4
1 4.1 9.4 0.0 5.8 1 5.3 10.6
2 8.3 6.6 0.0 5.9 2 10.7 6.8
1 4.2 3.0 0.0 3.0 1 5.4 3.0
3 12.5 9.5 0.0 8.8 3 16.0 9.8
262 13.1 12.9 102 14.0 15.2 160 12.6 11.6
129 14.1 14.4 53 15.3 15.9 76 13.4 13.5
133 12.2 11.6 49 12.8 14.6 84 11.9 9.9
3 2.2 1.9 0.0 1.6 3 3.0 2.1
1 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 1 0.4 0.6
0.0 0.9 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.7
5 2.0 2.1 1 1.2 0.7 4 2.5 2.9
8 2.6 3.3 3 2.9 2.2 5 2.4 3.9
18 7.4 8.3 6 5.4 5.5 12 9.2 10.7
33 17.6 16.4 16 17.8 15.1 17 17.4 17.6
194 64.0 61.9 76 51.5 59.5 118 75.8 64.3
142 54.2 55.8 57 55.9 53.8 85 53.1 57.4
60 22.9 21.0 24 23.5 21.7 36 22.5 20.4
60 22.9 23.2 21 20.6 24.5 39 24.4 22.2
155 0.2 0.2 51 0.1 0.1 104 0.6 0.6
132 85.2 85.0 43 84.3 85.2 89 85.6 84.8
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
158
71
7.9
3.5
7.1
3.1
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-8
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
BLADEN COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94 -98
30770 0.4 4
14279 46.4 46 5
16491 53.6 53 5
93 3.0 2 3
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98
17925 0.3 0.3
8537 47.6 47.7
9388 52.4 52.3
59 3.3 1.2
NUMBER
1998
RATE*
1998 94-98
12845 0.7 0.7
5742 44.7 44.9
7103 55.3 55.1
34 2.6 3.8
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
468 15 2 14 2 271 15 1 13 2 197 15.3 15 7
239 7 8 7 3 147 8 2 6 7 92 7.2 8 1
229 7 4 7 124 6 9 6 5 105 8.2 7 7
453 96 8 98 5 263 97 98 3 190 96.4 98 8
1 2 1 0.5 1
14 3 1 4 8 3 1 6 6 3.0 1 1
1 2 0.0
45 9 6 9 7 20 7 4 6 8 25 12.7 13
214 45 7 49 1 75 27 7 28 3 139 70.6 73 5
87 18 6 16 9 59 21 8 22 4 28 14.2 10 5
97 20 7 23 4 61 22 5 23 8 36 18.3 23
258 2 2 151 2 2 107 0.3 4
234 90 7 91 4 138 91 4 89 5 96 89.7 93 7
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
6 12.7 18.0 3 11.0 15.4 3 15.1 21.1
3 6.4 10.2 1 3.7 8.6 2 10.1 12.0
3 6.4 7.9 2 7.4 6.9 1 5.1 9.1
1 2.2 2.4 0.0 1.7 1 5.1 3.1
4 8.5 10.3 2 7.4 8.6 2 10.2 12.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15,
16.
17.
TOTAL 375 12.2 12.0 212 11.8 11.9 163 12.7 12.0
MALES 185 13.0 13.3 95 11.1 12.8 90 15.7 14.0
FEMALES 190 11.5 10.8 117 12.5 11.1 73 10.3 10.3
AivJS
00-04 YEARS 5 2.5 2.6 2 1.9 2.0 3 3.1 3.2
05-14 YEARS 4 0.9 0.7 2 1.0 0.6 2 0.9 0.7
15-24 YEARS 4 1.0 1.1 2 1.0 1.2 2 1.1 1.0
25-34 YEARS 12 3.2 2.0 2 0.9 1.0 10 6.6 3.5
35-44 YEARS 15 3.4 4.1 1 0.4 2.5 14 7.4 6.1
45-54 YEARS 24 5.3 7.4 11 3.9 5.1 13 7.7 11.5
55-64 YEARS 53 16.8 15.4 29 14.2 12.8 24 21.6 20.2
65 AND OVER 258 54.7 54.0 163 52.6 53.0 95 58.6 56.0
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 226 60.3 62.4 129 60.8 61.7 97 59.5 63.4
OTHER INSTITUTION 77 20.5 16.2 36 17.0 15.4 41 25.2 17.4
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 72 19.2 21.4 47 22.2 22.9 25 15.3 19.3
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 282 0.4 0.4 161 0.3 0.3 121 0.8 0.7
TO RESIDENTS 229 81.2 87.6 132 82.0 87.4 97 80.2 88.0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
197
128
6.4
4.2
6.1
4.3
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-9
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
BRUNSWICK COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
67314 0.9 9
32812 48.7 48 8
34502 51.3 51 2
102 1.5 1 8
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
56249 1.0 0.9
27661 49.2 49.2
28588 50.8 50.8
71 1.3 1.4
11065 0.6 0.6
5151 46.6 46.5
5914 53.4 53.5
31 2.8 3.9
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
764 11.3 11.7 632 11.2 11.4 132 11.9 13.3
377 5.6 6.0 324 5.8 5.8 53 4.8 6.7
387 5.7 5.7 308 5.5 5.6 79 7.1 6.6
713 93.3 96.2 588 93.0 95.8 125 94.7 97.7
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
47 6.2 3.5 40 6.3 3.8 7 5.3 2.1
4 0.5 0.3 4 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.0
65 8.5 7.8 46 7.3 6.6 19 14.4 12.8
281 36.8 36.2 195 30.9 28.5 86 65.2 68.7
190 24.9 25.6 176 27.8 29.1 14 10.6 10.9
218 28.5 25.8 182 28.8 25.7 36 27.3 26.2
228 0.2 0.2 179 0.2 0.2 49 0.2 0.2
217 95.2 96.5 170 95.0 96.0 47 95.9 98.1
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
10 13.0 12.6 6 9.4 10.0
8 10.4 9.1 5 7.8 7.0
2 2.6 3.5 1 1.6 3.0
2 2.6 1.9 1 1.6 1.0
4 5.2 5.4 2 3.2 4.0
4 29.6 23.5
3 22.2 18.0
1 7.6 5.6
1 7.6 5.7
2 15.2 11.3
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
662 9.8 9.9 561 10.0 10.0 101 9.1 9.4
358 10.9 11.4 303 11.0 11.3 55 10.7 11.8
304 8.8 8.5 258 9.0 8.7 46 7.8 7.4
5 1.3 1.3 3 1.0 1.1 2 2.4 2.1
0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.3
13 1.8 1.4 10 1.7 1.3 3 1.8 1.8
8 0.9 1.7 7 1.0 1.6 1 0.6 2.1
31 3.2 3.1 23 2.9 2.8 8 5.0 4.3
50 5.4 5.5 38 4.9 5.0 12 8.6 8.7
72 8.2 10.6 63 7.9 10.0 9 10.6 15.9
483 41.7 41.7 417 40.4 40.4 66 52.1 51.5
328 49.5 53.6 270 48.1 52.6 58 57.4 58.4
168 25.4 19.9 139 24.8 19.8 29 28.7 20.7
166 25.1 26.5 152 27.1 27.6 14 13.9 20.9
439 0.6 0.6 380 0.7 0.7 59 0.4 0.4
393 89.5 88.7 339 89.2 88.6 54 91.5 89.0
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
628
228
9.3
3.4
8.3
3.7
SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-10
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
BUNCOMBE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
193284 2.6 2 .6
92222 47.7 47 .6
101062 52.3 52 .4
379 2.0 1..3
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
175864 3.1 3.1
84012 47.8 47.7
91852 52.2 52.3
287 1.6 1.0
17420 1.0 1.0
8210 47.1 47.0
9210 52.9 53.0
92 5.3 3.7
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
2492 12.9 12.2 2218 12.6 11.9 274 15.7 15.1
1290 6.7 6.3 1139 6.5 6.1 151 8.7 7.7
1202 6.2 5.9 1079 6.1 5.8 123 7.1 7.4
2368 95.0 96.2 2102 94.8 95.9 266 97.1 98.4
1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 0.4 0.1
98 3.9 3.1 92 4.1 3.3 6 2.2 1.4
25 1.0 0.7 24 1.1 0.8 1 0.4 0.1
211 8.5 8.3 179 8.1 7.5 32 11.7 14.2
765 30.7 29.3 560 25.2 23.6 205 74.8 74.4
442 17.7 19.8 403 18.2 20.7 39 14.2 13.0
461 18.5 18.4 406 18.3 18.4 55 20.1 18.4
3486 3.1 3.1 3191 4.0 4.0 295 0.9 0.9
2361 67.7 67.5 2097 65.7 65.4 264 89.5 88.8
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15.
34 13.5 13.5 30 13.4 12.9 4 14.5 17.7
22 8.8 7.8 21 9.4 7.7 1 3.6 8.5
12 4.8 5.7 9 4.1 5.3 3 10.9 9.3
3 1.2 2.2 2 0.9 1.3 1 3.7 9.4
15 6.0 7.9 11 5.0 6.5 4 14.6 18.6
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 2113 10.9 10.9 1931 11.0 10.9 182 10.4 11.4
MALES 1026 11.1 11.2 934 11.1 11.1 92 11.2 12.5
FEMALES 1087 10.8 10.7 997 10.9 10.7 90 9.8 10.4
AGE
00-04 YEARS 19 1.7 2.0 14 1.4 1.7 5 3.3 3.6
05-14 YEARS 7 0.3 0.2 5 0.2 0.2 2 0.6 0.3
15-24 YEARS 16 0.7 0.9 14 0.7 0.8 2 0.8 1.6
25-34 YEARS 39 1.5 1.5 33 1.4 1.4 6 2.4 2.9
35-44 YEARS 69 2.3 2.3 52 1.9 1.9 17 6.6 5.6
45-54 YEARS 132 4.9 4.6 116 4.6 4.2 16 7.5 9.0
55-64 YEARS 193 9.9 10.5 174 9.5 10.1 19 15.8 17.6
65 AND OVER 1638 50.9 50.8 1523 50.4 50.1 115 58.7 61.8
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 798 37.8 37.8 710 36.8 37.1 88 48.4 44.4
OTHER INSTITUTION 837 39.6 40.4 781 40.4 40.7 56 30.8 37.5
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 478 22.6 21.8 440 22.8 22.2 38 20.9 18.0
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 2761 4.0 4.1 2553 4.8 4.9 208 1.3 1.4
TO RESIDENTS 1991 72.1 72.7 1818 71.2 71.8 173 83.2 82.6
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
1805
1300
9.3
6.7
9.0
6.6
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-11
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
BURKE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
84096 1.1 1,.1
41466 49.3 49 .2
42630 50.7 50,.8
279 3.3 4 .0
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
76669 1.3 1.4
37737 49.2 49.1
38932 50.8 50.9
174 2.3 3.1
7427 0.4 0.4
3729 50.2 50.1
3698 49.8 49.9
105 14.1 13.4
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1152 13.7 13.3 983 12.8 12.6 169 22.8 21.3
623 7.4 6.9 528 6.9 6.5 95 12.8 11.3
529 6.3 6.4 455 5.9 6.1 74 10.0 10.0
925 80.3 86.1 804 81.8 86.5 121 71.6 83.8
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
226 19.6 13.6 179 18.2 13.3 47 27.8 15.4
1 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.2 1 0.6 0.7
103 8.9 8.2 85 8.6 7.8 18 10.7 11.0
345 29.9 29.5 286 29.1 27.4 59 34.9 42.7
261 22.7 22.3 248 25.2 24.7 13 7.7 7.3
261 22.7 24.3 237 24.1 25.4 24 14.2 16.8
1198 1.1 1.1 1025 1.3 1.4 173 0.5 0.5
932 77.8 75.4 774 75.5 73.0 158 91.3 92.4
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
11 9.5 15.4 10 10.1 14.5
5 4.3 8.3 4 4.1 8.2
6 5.2 7.1 6 6.1 6.3
3 2.6 2.9 1 1.0 2.3
9 7.8 10.0 7 7.1 8.7
1 5.9 21.0
1 5.9 9.2
0.0 11.9
2 11.8 6.7
2 11.8 18.6
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17. PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
O T HER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
873 10.4 9.4 809 10.6 9.5 64 8.6 7.9
443 10.7 9.8 414 11.0 10.0 29 7.8 7.8
430 10.1 8.9 395 10.1 9.0 35 9.5 8.0
9 1.6 2.3 7 1.5 2.0 2 2.5 4.2
4 0.4 0.2 3 0.3 0.2 1 0.8 0.3
5 0.5 0.9 3 0.3 0.8 2 1.5 1.9
12 1.0 1.5 10 0.9 1.4 2 2.1 2.7
33 2.6 2.4 25 2.1 2.2 8 8.0 4.3
48 4.1 4.1 43 4.0 4.1 5 6.1 4.5
118 13.3 11.9 110 13.1 11.6 8 15.5 15.5
644 53.5 48.0 608 53.8 48.1 36 49.9 46.4
467 53.5 54.7 437 54.0 54.9 30 46.9 51.8
204 23.4 23.4 181 22.4 23.1 23 35.9 27.5
202 23.1 21.9 191 23.6 22.0 11 17.2 20.7
774 1.1 1.0 720 1.4 1.3 54 0.3 0.3
669 86.4 85.6 620 86.1 85.3 49 90.7 89.2
669
460
8.0
5.5
7.7
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-12
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CABARRUS COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
120674 1.6 1 6
58855 48.8 48 6
61819 51.2 51 4
708 5.9 5 2
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
104900 1.8 1.8
51330 48.9 48.8
53570 51.1 51.2
589 5.6 4.8
15774 0.9 0.9
7525 47.7 47.6
8249 52.3 52.4
119 7.5 7.5
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1789 14.8 14.0 1512 14.4 13.7 277 17.6 16.1
895 7.4 7.2 770 7.3 7.1 125 7.9 8.0
894 7.4 6.8 742 7.1 6.6 152 9.6 8.1
1757 98.2 98.8 1481 97.9 98.6 276 99.6 99.7
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
24 1.3 0.9 23 1.5 1.0 1 0.4 0.2
8 0.4 0.3 8 0.5 0.4 0.0 0.1
149 8.3 8.2 115 7.6 7.3 34 12.3 12.8
517 28.9 27.7 345 22.8 20.6 172 62.1 67.4
280 15.7 15.3 257 17.0 16.4 23 8.3 8.9
412 23.0 22.4 354 23.4 22.7 58 20.9 20.9
2129 1.9 1.7 1832 2.3 2.0 297 0.9 0.9
1305 61.3 61.5 1074 58.6 58.7 231 77.8 77.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
28 15.5 11.9 24 15.7 10.0 4 14.3 22.0
16 8.9 7.6 14 9.2 6.1 2 7.2 16.3
12 6.7 4.3 10 6.6 4.0 2 7.2 5.8
0.0 1.1 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.8
12 6.7 5.4 10 6.6 5.2 2 7.2 6.6
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18,
TOTAL 1081 9.0 8.8 923 8.8 8.8 158 10.0 8.6
MALES 487 8.3 8.8 413 8.0 8.7 74 9.8 9.4
FEMALES 594 9.6 8.8 510 9.5 8.9 84 10.2 7.9
twaE
00-04 YEARS 14 1.8 1.3 11 1.6 1.3 3 2.5 1.5
05-14 YEARS 3 0.2 0.2 3 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.2
15-24 YEARS 19 1.3 0.8 15 1.2 0.8 4 1.6 0.8
25-34 YEARS 17 0.9 1.1 13 0.8 1.0 4 1.6 1.9
35-44 YEARS 31 1.6 1.6 18 1.0 1.2 13 5.3 4.7
45-54 YEARS 57 3.4 3.7 46 3.1 3.5 11 6.1 5.6
55-64 YEARS 126 11.2 11.1 103 10.2 10.0 23 20.7 20.7
65 AND OVER 814 51.8 50.6 714 50.1 49.9 100 68.7 56.8
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 557 51.5 57.6 472 51.1 57.1 85 53.8 60.8
OTHER INSTITUTION 297 27.5 21.7 259 28.1 22.3 38 24.1 17.7
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 227 21.0 20.7 192 20.8 20.6 35 22.2 21.5
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 1144 1.7 1.6 980 1.9 1.8 164 1.0 0.8
TO RESIDENTS 905 79.1 79.4 765 78.1 78.8 140 85.4 83.1
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
985
546
8.2
4.5
8.0
4.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-13
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CALDWELL COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
75404 1.0 1,.0
37138 49.3 49,.2
38266 50.7 50 .8
424 5.6 4 .1
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
70940 1.2 1.3
34949 49.3 49.2
35991 50.7 50.8
369 5.2 3.9
4464 0.2 0.2
2189 49.0 48.8
2275 51.0 51.2
55 12.3 7.6
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1088 14.4 13.2 994 14.0 12.9 94 21.1 18.0
570 7.6 6.6 528 7.4 6.5 42 9.4 8.1
518 6.9 6.6 466 6.6 6.3 52 11.6 9.9
871 80.1 85.8 813 81.8 86.5 58 61.7 77.8
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
213 19.6 13.9 178 17.9 13.2 35 37.2 21.4
4 0.4 0.2 3 0.3 0.2 1 1.1 0.8
99 9.1 8.3 86 8.7 7.9 13 13.8 12.8
333 30.6 30.9 268 27.0 27.2 65 69.1 74.0
260 23.9 24.2 242 24.3 24.6 18 19.1 19.9
218 20.0 24.0 195 19.6 23.6 23 24.5 28.8
593 0.5 0.5 510 0.6 0.6 83 0.3 0.2
534 90.1 91.6 459 90.0 91.4 75 90.4 93.1
FETAL& INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
14 12.7 14.2 13 12.9 14.1
11 10.0 9.1 10 10.0 9.2
3 2.8 5.1 3 3.0 4.9
2 1.8 3.5 1 1.0 3.6
5 4.6 8.6 4 4.0 8.4
1 10.5 15.2
1 10.5 7.6
0.0 7.7
1 10.6 2.6
1 10.6 10.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
664 8.8 9.1 625 8.8 9.0 39 8.7 10.4
324 8.7 9.7 307 8.8 9.6 17 7.8 11.3
340 8.9 8.6 318 8.8 8.5 22 9.7 9.5
8 1.7 2.4 7 1.6 2.4 1 2.3 1.9
2 0.2 0.2 2 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
5 0.6 1.0 4 0.5 1.0 1 1.7 1.3
14 1.2 1.3 13 1.2 1.2 1 1.6 3.1
29 2.4 2.0 25 2.2 1.8 4 6.2 5.5
33 3.2 4.7 28 2.8 4.3 5 8.6 11.4
81 10.2 11.4 77 10.2 11.3 4 11.5 15.5
492 48.1 49.1 469 48.1 48.6 23 48.8 57.9
311 46.8 47.2 289 46.2 46.9 22 56.4 50.9
221 33.3 32.6 214 34.2 32.6 7 17.9 32.3
132 19.9 20.3 122 19.5 20.5 10 25.6 16.8
496 0.7 0.8 460 0.9 0.9 36 0.2 0.3
434 87.5 88.0 403 87.6 88.4 31 86.1 84.0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
680
390
9.0
5.2
9.2
5.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-14
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CAMDEN COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
6378 0.1 1
3268 51.2 50 9
3110 48.8 49 1
-26 -4.1 -1 6
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
5034 0.1 0.1
2607 51.8 51.5
2427 48.2 48.5
-22 -4.4 -1.2
RATE*
1998 94-98
1344 0.1 0.1
661 49.2 48.9
683 50.8 51.1
-4 -3.0 -3.1
LIVE BIRTHS
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
40 6.3 8.5 30 6.0 8.8 10 7.4 7.8
18 2.8 4.2 14 2.8 4.3 4 3.0 4.1
22 3.4 4.3 16 3.2 4.5 6 4.5 3.7
32 80.0 87.4 25 83.3 88.4 7 70.0 83.6
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
8 20.0 12.6 5 16.7 11.6 3 30.0 16.4
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
6 15.0 5.9 4 13.3 4.2 2 20.0 12.7
11 27.5 30.4 6 20.0 21.9 5 50.0 63.6
5 12.5 15.2 4 13.3 18.1 1 10.0 3.6
8 20.0 24.1 6 20.0 23.7 2 20.0 25.5
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
2 50.0 18.4
0.0 7.4
2 50.0 11.1
1 26.3 7.5
3 75.0 18.5
0.0 4.6
0.0 4.6
0.0 0.0
0.0 4.7
0.0 4.7
2 200.0 71.4
0.0 17.9
2 200.0 54.5
1 125.0 19.2
3 300.0 72.7
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
66 10.3 10.2 52 10.3 10.0 14 10.4 11.0
31 9.5 9.9 23 8.8 9.2 8 12.1 12.5
35 11.3 10.5 29 11.9 10.8 6 8.8 9.5
3 8.5 2.8 0.0 0.7 3 50.0 11.6
0.0 0.5 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.1
1 1.4 1.9 0.0 1.1 1 6.1 4.4
0.0 1.4 0.0 1.2 0.0 2.0
1 0.9 2.5 1 1.2 2.0 0.0 4.4
5 5.5 3.8 4 5.8 2.6 1 4.8 7.9
10 13.5 14.2 9 14.9 13.9 1 7.4 15.7
46 49.7 49.0 38 52.2 50.8 8 40.4 42.4
33 50.0 60.9 27 51.9 58.8 6 42.9 67.5
12 18.2 15.8 11 21.2 17.6 1 7.1 10.4
21 31.8 23.3 14 26.9 23.7 7 50.0 22.1
20 0.0 0.0 13 0.0 0.0 7 0.0 0.0
20 100.0 89.8 13 100.0 89.7 7 100.0 90.0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
43
13
6.7
2.0
7.6
1.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-15
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CARTERET COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
HALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
59266 0.8 .8
29192 49.3 49,.3
30074 50.7 50 .7
24 0.4 .7
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
53864 0.9 1.0
26656 49.5 49.5
27208 50.5 50.5
-9 -0.2 0.2
5402 0.3 0.3
2536 46.9 47.0
2866 53.1 53.0
33 6.1 5.4
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
625 10.5 10.6 546 10.1 10.4 79 14.6 12.5
325 5.5 5.5 280 5.2 5.4 45 8.3 6.6
300 5.1 5.1 266 4.9 5.0 34 6.3 5.9
618 98.9 98.3 541 99.1 98.1 77 97.5 99.4
1 0.2 0.1 1 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0
4 0.6 1.2 4 0.7 1.4 0.0 0.0
2 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.4 2 2.5 0.6
45 7.2 8.0 31 5.7 7.3 14 17.7 13.8
194 31.0 28.9 148 27.1 24.2 46 58.2 67.3
114 18.2 19.7 102 18.7 20.3 12 15.2 15.3
155 24.8 27.2 141 25.8 27.1 14 17.7 27.3
559 0.5 0.5 484 0.6 0.6 75 0.2 0.2
500 89.4 88.8 436 90.1 90.2 64 85.3 79.9
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
8 12.7 11.6 5 9.1 9.7 3 38.0 26.9
4 6.4 6.1 4 7.3 6.1 0.0 6.0
4 6.4 5.5 1 1.8 3.6 3 38.0 21.0
0.0 2.3 0.0 1.8 0.0 6.1
4 6.4 7.8 1 1.8 5.4 3 38.0 27.0
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
601 10.1 10.0 555 10.3 10.2 46 8.5 7.1
322 11.0 10.8 297 11.1 11.1 25 9.9 7.7
279 9.3 9.1 258 9.5 9.4 21 7.3 6.6
7 2.3 1.9 3 1.2 1.4 4 10.2 5.0
0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2
7 1.0 1.1 7 1.1 1.1 0.0 1.1
4 0.5 1.2 4 0.6 1.2 0.0 1.1
20 2.1 2.2 18 2.1 2.1 2 2.2 3.2
32 3.9 4.4 31 4.1 4.3 1 1.7 6.1
67 10.1 10.7 63 10.0 10.6 4 11.1 11.8
464 49.4 47.9 429 47.9 47.7 35 77.6 52.5
361 60.1 58.5 328 59.1 57.7 33 71.7 70.5
116 19.3 21.0 108 19.5 21.3 8 17.4 16.8
124 20.6 20.5 119 21.4 21.1 5 10.9 12.6
559 0.8 0.8 517 1.0 1.0 42 0.3 0.2
500 89.4 90.4 464 89.7 90.8 36 85.7 85.1
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
689
274
11.6
4.6
12.4
5.2
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-16
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CASWELL COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
22380 0.3 3
10874 48.6 48 7
11506 51.4 51 3
-4 -0.2 3
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
13715 0.2 0.2
6695 48.8 48.9
7020 51.2 51.1
7 0.5 1.4
RATE*
1998 94-98
8665 0.5 0.5
4179 48.2 48.3
4486 51.8 51.7
-11 -1.3 -1.5
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
253 11.3 11.1 157 11.4 11.8 96 11.1 9.8
123 5.5 5.9 81 5.9 6.4 42 4.8 5.0
130 5.8 5.2 76 5.5 5.4 54 6.2 4.8
235 92.9 95.5 142 90.4 94.5 93 96.9 97.4
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12 4.7 2.4 11 7.0 3.0 1 1.0 1.4
6 2.4 2.1 4 2.5 2.6 2 2.1 1.2
29 11.5 9.7 13 8.3 8.0 16 16.7 12.9
92 36.4 33.3 33 21.0 17.8 59 61.5 61.9
55 21.7 20.8 42 26.8 25.3 13 13.5 12.4
51 20.2 21.3 33 21.0 21.3 18 18.8 21.2
4 0.0 0.0 4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
4 100.0 90.9 4 100.0 95.0 50.0
FETAL& INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
8 31.4 23.1 2 12.7 15.3
2 7.8 9.9 0.0 5.1
6 23.7 13.3 2 12.7 10.3
2 8.1 2.5 2 12.9 3.9
8 31.6 15.8 4 25.5 14.1
6 61.2 37.4
2 20.4 18.7
4 41.7 19.0
0.0 0.0
4 41.7 19.0
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 257 11.5 10.8 150 10.9 10 4 107 12.3 11.3
MALES 132 12.1 11.7 75 11.2 11 2 57 13.6 12.6
FEMALES 125 10.9 9.8 75 10.7 9 6 50 11.1 10.2
AGE
00-04 YEARS 8 6.7 3.2 4 4.9 2 9 4 10.4 3.7
05-14 YEARS 0.0 0.5 0.0 4 0.0 0.7
15-24 YEARS 1 0.4 0.8 1 0.7 8 0.0 0.7
25-34 YEARS 2 0.7 1.2 2 1.1 1 0.0 1.4
35-44 YEARS 6 1.7 2.7 4 1.8 2 1 2 1.4 3.6
45-54 YEARS 13 3.9 4.8 8 4.0 3 8 5 3.7 6.4
55-64 YEARS 28 11.7 13.2 16 10.5 12 8 12 13.7 13.9
65 AND OVER 199 56.0 50.1 115 52.2 48 4 84 62.1 52.9
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 116 45.1 49.4 65 43.3 48 5 51 47.7 50.5
OTHER INSTITUTION 66 25.7 23.5 41 27.3 23 4 25 23.4 23.6
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 75 29.2 27.2 44 29.3 28 1 31 29.0 25.9
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 135 0.2 0.2 91 0.2 1 44 0.3 0.3
TO RESIDENTS 111 82.2 81.5 71 78.0 77 5 40 90.9 88.1
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
136
62
6.1
2.8
6.9
3.3
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-17
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CATAWBA COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
131549 1.7 1 7
64201 48.8 48 7
67348 51.2 51 3
652 5.0 4 6
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
117621 2.1 2.1
57535 48.9 48.8
60086 51.1 51.2
469 4.0 3.8
RATE*
1998 94-98
13928 0.8 0.8
6666 47.9 47.8
7262 52.1 52.2
183 13.1 11.7
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1874 14 2 13 7 1590 13 5 12 9 284 20 4 20 2
960 7 3 7 820 7 6 6 140 10 1 10 1
914 6 9 6 7 770 6 5 6 3 144 10 3 10 1
1281 68 4 67 8 1139 71 6 71 6 142 50 46 9
1 1 1 1
573 30 6 31 6 435 27 4 27 8 138 48 6 52 3
19 1 5 15 9 5 4 1 4 7
152 8 1 8 2 119 7 5 7 4 33 11 6 13
536 28 6 28 7 374 23 5 23 3 162 57 58 4
242 12 9 15 9 211 13 3 17 31 10 9 9 8
434 23 2 23 1 383 24 1 23 7 51 18 19 6
2496 2 2 2 2 2213 2 8 2 8 283 9 9
1666 66 7 67 3 1401 63 3 64 1 265 93 6 91 9
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
25 13.2 10.0 22 13.7 9.1
15 7.9 6.5 14 8.7 6.2
10 5.3 3.5 8 5.0 3.0
3 1.6 2.6 2 1.3 2.4
13 6.9 6.2 10 6.3 5.4
3 10.5 14.7
1 3.5 8.1
2 7.0 6.7
1 3.5 3.7
3 10.6 10.4
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15.
16.
17
18.
TOTAL 1222 9.3 9.1 1121 9.5 9.1 101 7.3 8.4
MALES 622 9.7 9.7 573 10.0 9.7 49 7.4 9.6
FEMALES 600 8.9 8.4 548 9.1 8.6 52 7.2 7.4
AGE
00-04 YEARS 16 1.9 1.6 12 1.7 1.4 4 2.7 2.3
05-14 YEARS 5 0.3 0.2 3 0.2 0.2 2 0.7 0.2
15-24 YEARS 15 0.9 1.1 13 0.9 1.0 2 1.0 1.8
25-34 YEARS 17 0.9 1.2 15 0.9 1.1 2 0.9 1.5
35-44 YEARS 46 2.2 2.1 42 2.2 1.8 4 1.9 3.9
45-54 YEARS 87 4.7 4.6 72 4.3 4.3 15 10.2 8.2
55-64 YEARS 151 11.7 12.1 133 11.1 11.3 18 21.3 22.9
65 AND OVER 885 52.3 51.2 831 52.2 50.3 54 52.4 65.0
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 623 51.0 52.8 569 50.8 52.3 54 53.5 58.3
OTHER INSTITUTION 331 27.1 24.3 305 27.2 24.7 26 25.7 20.4
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 268 21.9 22.9 247 22.0 23.1 21 20.8 21.3
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 1359 2.0 1.9 1255 2.4 2.3 104 0.6 0.7
TO RESIDENTS 1030 75.8 77.4 946 75.4 76.5 84 80.8 86.5
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
1110
851
8.4
6.5
8.3
6.5
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-18
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CHATHAM COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
45938 0.6 6
22202 48.3 48 3
23736 51.7 51 7
203 4.4 3 7
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
36326 0.6 0.6
17697 48.7 48.7
18629 51.3 51.3
230 6.3 4.7
RATE*
1998 94-98
9612 0.5 0.5
4505 46.9 47.0
5107 53.1 53.0
-27 -2.8 -0.2
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
664 14.5 13.3 564 15.5 14.1 100 10.4 10.5
324 7.1 6.9 273 7.5 7.3 51 5.3 5.2
340 7.4 6.5 291 8.0 6.8 49 5.1 5.3
622 93.7 95.0 524 92.9 94.2 98 98.0 98.8
1 0.2 0.1 1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0
36 5.4 4.2 34 6.0 4.8 2 2.0 1.2
5 0.8 0.6 5 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.0
56 8.4 8.1 38 6.7 6.6 18 18.0 15.2
188 28.3 26.5 120 21.3 19.3 68 68.0 61.7
93 14.0 13.0 73 12.9 13.3 20 20.0 11.4
146 22.0 22.2 126 22.3 21.9 20 20.0 23.4
4 0.0 0.0 3 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.0
4 100.0 85.2 3 100.0 87.0 1 100.0 75.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
6 9.0 13.2 4 7.1 9.0 2 19.8 33.5
3 4.5 6.4 2 3.5 4.5 1 9.9 15.8
3 4.5 6.8 2 3.5 4.5 1 10.0 18.0
4 6.1 4.1 3 5.3 3.3 1 10.1 8.2
7 10.5 10.9 5 8.9 7.8 2 20.0 26.1
15.
16.
17
18.
TOTAL 461 10.0 9.7 334 9.2 9.4 127 13.2 10.7
MALES 231 10.4 10.4 163 9.2 9.9 68 15.1 12.4
FEMALES 230 9.7 8.9 171 9.2 8.9 59 11.6 9.2
AGE
00-04 YEARS 10 3.5 2.6 7 3.1 2.0 3 5.3 4.7
05-14 YEARS 1 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.1 1 0.7 0.3
15-24 YEARS 11 2.3 1.5 8 2.3 1.4 3 2.5 1.9
25-34 YEARS 8 1.2 1.6 4 0.8 1.1 4 3.1 3.6
35-44 YEARS 13 1.7 1.8 9 1.5 1.3 4 2.6 3.6
45-54 YEARS 21 3.1 4.2 11 2.0 3.4 10 7.3 7.4
55-64 YEARS 51 11.4 11.0 28 7.7 9.3 23 27.5 18.3
65 AND OVER 346 47.9 46.4 267 44.7 45.4 79 63.7 51.1
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 202 43.8 46.2 137 41.0 44.8 65 51.2 50.8
OTHER INSTITUTION 142 30.8 28.3 114 34.1 29.8 28 22.0 23.4
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 117 25.4 25.5 83 24.9 25.5 34 26.8 25.8
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 345 0.5 0.5 265 0.5 0.5 80 0.5 0.4
TO RESIDENTS 278 80.6 83.3 216 81.5 83.5 62 77.5 82.3
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
351
166
7.6
3.6
7.8
3.6
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-19
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CHEROKEE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
22782 0.3 3
10987 48.2 48 2
11795 51.8 51 8
-29 -1.3 -0 8
MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
21757 0.4 0.4
10431 47.9 47.9
11326 52.1 52.1
-21 -1.0 -0.7
1025 0.1 0.1
556 54.2 53.3
469 45.8 46.7
-8 -7.8 -3.1
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
261 11.5 11.4 255 11.7 11.5 6 5.9 9.1
131 5.8 5.8 129 5.9 5.8 2 2.0 5.2
130 5.7 5.5 126 5.8 5.6 4 3.9 3.9
256 98.1 98.2 250 98.0 98.3 6 100.0 93.2
0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
5 1.9 1.0 5 2.0 1.0 0.0 2.3
0.0 0.7 0.0 0.6 0.0 4.5
13 5.0 4.9 13 5.1 4.9 0.0 6.8
68 26.1 23.3 65 25.5 22.5 3 50.0 47.7
49 18.8 24.7 47 18.4 25.1 2 33.3 13.6
60 23.0 21.8 58 22.7 21.1 2 33.3 38.6
244 0.2 0.2 237 0.3 0.3 7 0.0 0.0
17 6 72.1 69.7 171 72.2 69.1 5 71.4 90.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
.
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
4 15.2 8.7 3 11.7 5.8
3 11.4 5.5 2 7.8 3.3
1 3.8 3.2 1 3.9 2.5
4 15.4 8.0 4 15.7 8.3
5 19.2 11.2 5 19.6 10.7
1 142.9 85.1
1 142.9 63.8
0.0 22.7
0.0 0.0
0.0 22.7
290 12.7 12.1 276 12.7 12.1 14 13.7 12.2
160 14.6 14.0 154 14.8 14.2 6 10.8 11.6
130 11.0 10.4 122 10.8 10.3 8 17.1 12.8
6 4.7 2.6 6 5.0 2.5 0.0 2.9
1 0.4 0.3 1 0.4 0.3 0.0 0.0
3 1.2 0.9 2 0.9 0.8 1 7.9 1.6
3 1.1 1.4 2 0.8 1.3 1 7.5 3.0
8 2.6 2.7 8 2.8 2.7 0.0 2.7
21 6.8 6.2 18 6.1 6.0 3 19.6 9.7
37 13.4 10.7 35 13.1 10.5 2 20.8 14.1
211 45.3 46.1 204 45.4 45.8 7 45.2 55.1
142 49.0 54.5 135 48.9 54.3 7 50.0 57.6
61 21.0 17.9 58 21.0 17.8 3 21.4 18.6
87 30.0 27.6 83 30.1 27.8 4 28.6 23.7
307 0.4 0.4 297 0.6 0.5 10 0.1 0.1
242 78.8 78.8 233 78.5 78.5 9 90.0 85.2
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
245
119
10.8
5.2
10.9
4.5
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-20
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CHOWAN COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
(UMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
14382 0.2 2
6655 46.3 46 3
7727 53.7 53 7
73 5.1 2 3
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
9192 0.2 0.2
4373 47.6 47.5
4819 52.4 52.5
41 4.5 0.5
RATE*
1998 94-98
5190 0.3 0.3
2282 44.0 44.1
2908 56.0 55.9
32 6.2 5.4
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
236 16.4 14.5 134 14 6 12 4 102 19.7 18.1
122 8.5 7.7 68 7 4 6 7 54 10.4 9.5
114 7.9 6.8 66 7 2 5 7 48 9.2 8.7
223 94.5 97.5 128 95 5 97 5 95 93.1 97.4
1 0.4 0.4 2 1 1.0 0.6
12 5.1 1.9 6 4 5 2 2 6 5.9 1.5
0.0 0.3 2 0.0 0.4
25 10.6 7.7 9 6 7 5 2 16 15.7 10.7
108 45.8 45.9 27 20 1 18 1 81 79.4 78.9
28 11.9 12.2 17 12 7 14 7 11 10.8 9.2
71 30.1 26.8 39 29 1 23 5 32 31.4 30.7
380 0.3 0.4 193 2 3 187 0.6 0.6
161 42.4 41.4 76 39 4 38 5 85 45.5 44.3
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
10 41.7 20.2
4 16.7 11.6
6 25.4 8.8
0.0 0.0
6 25.4 8.8
5 37.3 14.3
0.0 3.6
5 37.3 10.8
0.0 0.0
5 37.3 10.8
5 47 2 27 1
4 37 7 20 9
1 9 8 6 4
9.8 6.4
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
163 11.3 12.2 93 10.1 11.9 70 13.5 12.7
87 13.1 13.5 45 10.3 12.6 42 18.4 15.2
76 9.8 11.1 48 10.0 11.3 28 9.6 10.8
6 6.1 2.0 5 9.4 2.3 1 2.2 1.7
0.0 0.4 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.4
0.0 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.9
0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7
5 2.5 2.7 1 0.8 1.4 4 5.4 4.7
11 5.8 5.6 7 5.8 4.4 4 5.9 7.9
22 15.4 11.5 11 10.3 8.3 11 30.1 20.1
119 44.5 52.5 69 35.2 47.1 50 70.0 67.2
107 65.6 65.1 54 58.1 62.6 53 75.7 69.1
29 17.8 22.2 20 21.5 21.5 9 12.9 23.3
27 16.6 12.7 19 20.4 15.9 8 11.4 7.6
201 0.3 0.3 120 0.2 0.3 81 0.5 0.5
123 61.2 63.0 71 59.2 62.0 52 64.2 64.7
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
115
45
8.0
3.1
7.8
3.6
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
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SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CLAY COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
8238 0.1 1
3957 48.0 48 1
4281 52.0 51 9
-35 -4.2 -3 8
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
8144 0.1 0.1
3912 48.0 48.1
4232 52.0 51.9
-34 -4.2 -3.7
94 0.0 0.0
45 47.9 48.5
49 52.1 51.5
-1 -10.6 -13.0
LIVE BIRTHS
3. TOTAL 66 8.0 8 5 66 8 1 8 6 2 2
MALES 36 4.4 4 6 36 4 4 4 7
FEMALES 30 3.6 3 9 30 3 7 4 2 2
4. ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL 66 100.0 97 9 66 100 97 9 100
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL 0.0
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE 0.0 6 6
OTHER ATTENDANT 0.0 1 5 1 5
5. LOW BIRTHWEIGHT 6 9.1 5 9 6 9 1 6
6. OUT OF WEDLOCK 11 16.7 18 4 11 16 7 18 2 100
7. MOTHER SMOKED 9 13.6 22 3 9 13 6 22 3
8. C-SECTION 11 16.7 19 6 11 16 7 19 6
9. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 0.0
TO RESIDENTS 100 100
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
4 59.7 14.7 4 59.7 14.8 0.0
1 14.9 5.9 1 14.9 5.9 0.0
3 45.5 8.9 3 45.5 8.9 0.0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
3 45.5 8.9 3 45.5 8.9 0.0
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
.
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
101 12.3 12.4 100 12.3 12.3 1 10.6 15.2
50 12.6 14.1 49 12.5 14.0 1 22.2 17.9
51 11.9 10.8 51 12.1 10.8 0.0 12.7
3 9.0 2.3 3 9.1 2.4 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1 1.1 0.9 1 1.1 0.9 0.0 0.0
0.0 1.4 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.0
1 0.9 1.4 1 0.9 1.4 0.0 0.0
4 3.3 6.2 4 3.3 6.3 0.0 0.0
6 5.9 7.8 6 6.0 7.9 0.0 0.0
86 47.8 46.8 85 48.0 46.8 1 32.3 48.6
45 44.6 47.3 45 45.0 47.6 0.0 28.6
30 29.7 26.0 29 29.0 25.4 1 100.0 71.4
26 25.7 26.6 26 26.0 27.0 0.0 0.0
56 0.1 0.1 55 0.1 0.1 1 0.0 0.0
45 80.4 82.2 44 80.0 82.2 1 100.0 80.0
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
67
32
8.1
3.9
8.5
3.4
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-22
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CLEVELAND COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L W H I T E
fUMBER RATE* NUMBER RA'
1998 1998 94--98 1998 1998
91806 1.2 1 .2 71363 1.2
44152 48.1 48 .0 34485 48.3
47654 51.9 52 .0 36878 51.7
381 4.2 3 .8 200 2.8
MINORITY
NUMBER RATE*
1998 94-98
1.3 20443 1.1 1.1
48.3 9667 47.3 47.2
51.7 10776 52.7 52.8
2.2 181 8.9 9.4
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1340 14.6 14.3 977 13.7 13.1 363 17.8 18.4
702 7.6 7.3 505 7.1 6.8 197 9.6 9.1
638 6.9 6.9 472 6.6 6.3 166 8.1 9.3
1239 92.5 93.8 896 91.7 93.6 343 94.5 94.2
1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 1 0.3 0.1
95 7.1 5.9 77 7.9 6.1 18 5.0 5.3
5 0.4 0.3 4 0.4 0.3 1 0.3 0.4
113 8.4 8.9 77 7.9 7.5 36 9.9 12.4
502 37.5 36.3 242 24.8 22.1 260 71.6 72.0
270 20.1 19.2 223 22.8 22.2 47 12.9 11.7
313 23.4 20.1 233 23.8 20.9 80 22.0 18.2
1118 1.0 1.1 823 1.0 1.1 295 0.9 1.0
969 86.7 86.7 680 82.6 82.7 289 98.0 96.8
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
5 11.1 14.9 8 8.1 11.9 7 19.1 22.1
9 6.7 8.4 5 5.1 7.2 4 10.9 11.3
6 4.5 6.6 3 3.1 4.8 3 8.3 10.9
3 2.2 2.4 1 1.0 2.2 2 5.6 2.8
9 6.7 8.9 4 4.1 7.0 5 13.8 13.6
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
959 10.,4 10..5 777 10.,9 10.,9 182 8..9 9 .0
478 10.,8 10,.8 378 11..0 10..9 100 10 .3 10 .2
481 10,,1 10 ,2 399 10..8 10..9 82 7 ,6 8 .0
13 2,,1 2 .4 7 1..6 2,.1 6 3 .2 3 .2
3 0.,2 .3 3 0..3 0,.3 .0 .2
11 1..0 1 .2 6 0.,7 1,,0 5 1 .7 1..7
16 1.,2 1,.5 9 0..9 1,.1 7 2..2 2..7
44 3,,2 2 .8 29 2..7 2..3 15 5 .0 4 .4
68 5..4 5 .4 47 4..6 4..4 21 8 .7 10 .0
115 12.,1 12 .7 91 11,.4 11..9 24 16 ,1 17 .0
689 51.,6 52 .3 585 50,.7 51,.5 104 57 . 1 56 .8
515 53..7 58 .7 401 51 .6 57 .2 114 62 .6 65 .4
262 27 .3 20 .4 219 28 .2 21 .4 43 23 .6 16 .3
182 19 .0 20 .9 157 20 .2 21 .5 25 13 .7 18 .4
890 1 .3 1 .3 729 1 .4 1 .4 161 1 .0 1 .0
774 87 .0 86 . 630 86 .4 85 . 1 144 89 .4 90 .0
OTHER EVENTS
19.
20.
MARRIAGES
DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
666
451
7.3
4.9
6.9
5.3
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-23
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
ITEM
POPULATION
COLUMBUS COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
52166 0,,7 0..7
24377 46.,7 46..8
27789 53,,3 53,.2
222 4,.3 3..6
34275 0.6 0.6
16273 47.5 47.5
18002 52.5 52.5
91 2.7 2.0
17891 1.0 1.0
8104 45.3 45.4
9787 54.7 54.6
131 7.3 6.7
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
821 15..7 14 .8 487 14 .2 13,,2 334 18.,7 17,.8
428 8 .2 7..3 269 7 .8 6 .5 159 8..9 8 .7
393 7..5 7 .5 218 6 .4 6,.7 17 5 9,.8 9 .1
778 94 .8 94 .0 459 94 .3 93,.1 319 95,.5 95,.3
2 0..2 .1 .0 0,.0 2 0,,6 .2
36 4,.4 4..9 27 5 .5 6..0 9 2 .7 3 .4
5 0.,6 1..0 1 .2 0,.8 4 1,.2 1 .1
73 8 .9 9 ,1 25 5 .1 5,.8 48 14,.4 13,.8
376 45..8 44,.9 119 24 .4 23,.4 257 76,.9 75 .6
137 16..7 18..1 91 18 .7 20..5 46 13,.8 14,.7
184 22..4 20 .9 117 24 .0 21..6 67 20..1 19,.9
469 .4 .5 260 0..3 0,.4 209 0,.6 .7
438 93..4 92 .9 239 91 .9 90..9 199 95,,2 95 .3
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
17 20.5 16.6 6 12.2 11.9
10 12.0 8.8 6 12.2 7.1
7 8.5 7.9 0.0 4.9
3 3.7 3.4 1 2.1 1.8
10 12.2 11.3 1 2.1 6.7
11 32.5 23.3
4 11.8 11.3
7 21.0 12.1
2 6.1 5.8
9 26.9 17.8
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
599 11.5 11.2 396 11.6 11.2 203 11.3 11.1
308 12.6 12.4 204 12.5 12.3 104 12.8 12.7
291 10.5 10.1 192 10.7 10.3 99 10.1 9.8
11 3.3 2.9 1 0.5 1.9 10 7.3 4.4
5 0.7 0.6 3 0.7 0.6 2 0.6 0.5
13 1.9 1.4 10 2.4 1.3 3 1.1 1.5
17 2.6 1.9 12 2.7 1.7 5 2.4 2.4
29 3.7 3.0 16 3.2 2.3 13 4.8 4.3
41 5.8 6.3 23 4.7 4.9 18 8.4 9.7
69 12.6 14.5 38 9.4 11.8 31 21.9 22.4
414 54.3 54.2 293 53.2 53.1 121 57.0 57.0
353 58.9 60.2 227 57.3 58.8 126 62.1 62.7
109 18.2 16.6 77 19.4 17.4 32 15.8 15.1
137 22.9 23.2 92 23.2 23.8 45 22.2 22.2
412 0.6 0.7 268 0.5 0.6 144 0.9 0.9
380 92.2 90.3 244 91.0 90.9 136 94.4 89.1
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
357
277
6.8
5.3
6.3
5.0
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-24
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994 19 9 8
CRAVEN COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
89008 1.2 1 2
44198 49.7 49 6
44810 50.3 50 4
779 8.8 9 1
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
65133 1.1 1.1
33018 50.7 50.6
32115 49.3 49.4
574 8.8 8.7
RATE*
1998 94-98
23875 1.3 1.3
11180 46.8 46.8
12695 53.2 53.2
205 8.6 10.1
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
1596 17.9 17.7 1144 17.6 16.9 452 18.9 19.8
804 9.0 9.0 568 8.7 8.6 236 9.9 10.1
792 8.9 8.6 576 8.8 8.2 216 9.0 9.7
1578 98.9 97.4 1132 99.0 97.0 446 98.7 98.4
1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 0.2 0.0
13 0.8 2.2 10 0.9 2.6 3 0.7 1.4
4 0.3 0.3 2 0.2 0.4 2 0.4 0.2
109 6.8 7.9 67 5.9 5.6 42 9.3 13.2
432 27.1 27.3 175 15.3 14.5 257 56.9 56.8
246 15.4 13.0 203 17.7 15.0 43 9.5 8.6
379 23.7 25.7 262 22.9 24.9 117 25.9 27.7
1719 1.5 1.6 1216 1.5 1.6 503 1.5 1.6
1423 82.8 80.5 1018 83.7 79.8 405 80.5 82.2
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
17 10.6 10.0 6 5.2 5.6
9 5.6 5.2 4 3.5 3.0
8 5.0 4.8 2 1.7 2.6
6 3.8 2.7 1 0.9 1.7
14 8.8 7.6 3 2.6 4.3
11 24.1 20.1
5 10.9 10.2
6 13.3 9.9
5 11.2 5.2
11 24.3 15.1
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
817 9.2 8.6 570 8.8 8.1 247 10.3 9.7
406 9.2 8.7 294 8.9 8.1 112 10.0 10.5
411 9.2 8.4 276 8.6 8.2 135 10.6 9.1
17 2.5 2.2 5 1.1 1.5 12 5.5 3.8
3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.0 3 0.7 0.3
18 1.2 1.0 11 1.0 0.9 7 1.6 1.1
22 1.6 1.2 5 0.5 0.9 17 4.8 2.1
35 2.7 2.5 17 1.8 1.8 18 5.2 4.5
47 4.8 5.4 26 3.5 3.8 21 8.9 10.6
81 11.0 11.1 60 10.2 9.8 21 14.4 16.5
594 52.0 49.7 446 49.2 46.3 148 62.6 61.8
458 56.1 55.9 306 53.7 53.2 152 61.5 62.0
196 24.0 22.5 145 25.4 24.3 51 20.6 18.6
163 20.0 21.6 119 20.9 22.5 44 17.8 19.5
944 1.4 1.3 684 1.3 1.2 260 1.6 1.6
701 74.3 75.9 496 72.5 75.3 205 78.8 77.3
OTHER EVENTS
19. MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
929
442
10.4
5.0
10.2
5.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
4-25
SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
.
NATURAL INCREASE
T O T A L
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
292744 3.9 4
149180 51.0 51
143564 49.0 49
3793 13.0 13 1
WHITE MINORITY
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
180237 3.1 3.3
95261 52.9 52.8
84976 47.1 47.2
2210 12.3 12.6
112507 6.2 6.3
53919 47.9 48.0
58588 52.1 52.0
1583 14.1 13.9
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C-SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
5619 19.2 19.2 3340 18.5 18.7 2279 20.3 19.9
2851 9.7 9.8 1700 9.4 9.7 1151 10.2 10.2
2768 9.5 9.3 1640 9.1 9.1 1128 10.0 9.7
4675 83.2 92.1 2700 80.8 90.7 1975 86.7 94.3
1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 0.0 0.0
893 15.9 7.4 613 18.4 8.7 280 12.3 5.3
50 0.9 0.4 27 0.8 0.5 23 1.0 0.4
525 9.3 8.9 232 6.9 6.5 293 12.9 12.6
1753 31.2 28.3 604 18.1 15.2 1149 50.4 48.5
719 12.8 13.3 533 16.0 15.8 186 8.2 9.4
982 17.5 18.1 565 16.9 17.1 417 18.3 19.6
7006 6.2 6.6 4181 5.2 5.7 2825 8.7 8.8
5382 76.8 77.8 3194 76.4 77.7 2188 77.5 77.8
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
84 14.8 14.9 24 7.2 9.2
38 6.7 7.3 12 3.6 4.9
46 8.2 7.6 12 3.6 4.3
20 3.6 2.8 8 2.4 2.3
66 11.7 10.4 20 6.0 6.6
60 26.0 23.7
26 11.3 11.1
34 14.9 12.8
12 5.3 3.5
46 20.2 16.2
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15.
16.
17.
18.
TOTAL 1826 6.2 6.1 1130 6.3 6.2 696 6.2 6.0
MALES 955 6.4 6.4 588 6.2 6.2 367 6.8 6.7
FEMALES 871 6.1 5.8 542 6.4 6.2 329 5.6 5.3
AGE
00-04 YEARS 69 2.6 2.6 22 1.5 1.9 47 4.2 3.5
05-14 YEARS 9 0.2 0.2 5 0.2 0.2 4 0.2 0.2
15-24 YEARS 57 1.1 1.1 34 1.0 1.0 23 1.1 1.3
25-34 YEARS 69 1.3 1.3 26 0.8 0.9 43 2.2 2.0
35-44 YEARS 104 2.5 2.8 54 2.1 2.0 50 3.2 3.9
45-54 YEARS 158 5.1 5.3 90 4.6 4.6 68 6.0 6.6
55-64 YEARS 265 13.0 12.8 164 12.0 12.0 101 14.8 14.5
65 AND OVER 1095 49.0 49.2 735 46.6 47.4 360 54.8 53.4
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL 1081 59.2 56.4 616 54.5 53.4 465 66.8 61.4
OTHER INSTITUTION 366 20.0 21.0 246 21.8 22.1 120 17.2 19.3
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION 379 20.8 22.6 268 23.7 24.5 111 15.9 19.3
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 2018 2.9 3.0 1232 2.3 2.4 786 4.9 4.9
TO RESIDENTS 1631 80.8 79.6 1021 82.9 81.8 610 77.6 76.3
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
3301
2220
11.3
7.6
10.2
7.7
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
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SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
CURRITUCK COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2. NATURAL INCREASE
UMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
17164 0.2 2
8640 50.3 50 4
8524 49.7 49 6
32 1.9 1 4
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER
1998 1998 94-98 1998
15484 0.3 0.3
7800 50.4 50.4
7684 49.6 49.6
28 1.8 1.9
RATE*
1998 94-98
1680 0.1 0.1
840 50.0 50.1
840 50.0 49.9
4 2.4 -2.5
LIVE BIRTHS
3. TOTAL 187 10 9 10 9 162 10 5 10 9 25 14 9 10 8
MALES 94 5 5 5 4 79 5 1 5 4 15 8 9 5 3
FEMALES 93 5 4 5 5 83 5 4 5 5 10 6 5 5
4. ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL 171 91 4 92 4 148 91 4 92 5 23 92 92 2
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE 16 8 6 7 3 14 8 6 7 4 2 8 6 7
OTHER ATTENDANT 2 1 1 1
5. LOW BIRTHWEIGHT 18 9 6 7 8 13 8 6 9 5 20 15 6
6. OUT OF WEDLOCK 50 26 7 29 6 32 19 8 25 4 18 72 66 7
7. MOTHER SMOKED 38 20 3 22 37 22 8 23 9 1 4 5 6
8. C-SECTION 49 26 2 21 8 40 24 7 21 6 9 36 23 3
9. OCCURRENCE
TOTAL 1 1
TO RESIDENTS 50 50
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 2 8 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS
)
1 5
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
3 16.0 12.4 3 18.5 11.3 0.0 22.2
0.0 1.1 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0
3 16.0 11.3 3 18.5 10.1 0.0 22.2
1 5.4 5.7 1 6.3 5.1 0.0 11.4
4 21.4 16.9 4 24.7 15.1 0.0 33.3
155 9.0 9.5 134 8.7 9.0 21 12.5 13.3
86 10.0 10.4 77 9.9 10.0 9 10.7 14.1
69 8.1 8.6 57 7.4 8.1 12 14.3 12.5
4 4.1 3.1 4 4.5 2.7 0.0 6.7
1 0.4 0.4 1 0.5 0.5 0.0 0.0
0.0 0.9 0.0 0.8 0.0 1.6
3 1.2 1.1 2 0.9 1.1 1 4.3 0.8
9 3.0 1.6 9 3.3 1.6 0.0 2.0
10 4.3 4.7 8 3.8 4.1 2 9.3 10.7
17 9.8 12.1 15 9.3 11.6 2 15.9 18.2
111 49.7 53.7 95 47.6 51.8 16 67.8 68.2
78 50.3 52.4 65 48.5 50.6 13 61.9 63.1
27 17.4 23.3 21 15.7 23.2 6 28.6 24.3
50 32.3 24.3 48 35.8 26.2 2 9.5 12.6
77 0. 1 0.1 69 0.1 0.1 8 0.0 0.1
64 83.1 78.4 58 84.1 77.5 6 75.0 85.4
OTHER EVENTS
19
.
MARRIAGES
20. DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS
245
58
14.3
3.4
10.6
3.1
* SEE DEFINITIONS AND FORMULAS SECTION
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SELECTED VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1998 AND 1994-1998
DARE COUNTY
TOTAL WHITE MINORITY
ITEM
POPULATION
1
.
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
2
NATURAL INCREASE
NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94--98
28140 0.4 4
13989 49.7 49 7
14151 50.3 50 3
106 3.8 3 7
NUMBER RATE* NUMBER RATE*
1998 1998 94-98 1998 1998 94-98
27181 0.5 0.5
13492 49.6 49.6
13689 50.4 50.4
95 3.5 3.8
959 0.1 0.1
497 51.8 51.5
462 48.2 48.5
11 11.5 1.9
LIVE BIRTHS
TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
ATTENDANT
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL
PHYSICIAN NOT IN HOSPITAL
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE
OTHER ATTENDANT
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
OUT OF WEDLOCK
MOTHER SMOKED
C- SECTION
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
312 11.1 11.2 297 10.9 11.1 15 15.6 12.7
163 5.8 5.7 156 5.7 5.7 7 7.3 6.4
149 5.3 5.5 141 5.2 5.4 8 8.3 6.4
271 86.9 88.2 261 87.9 88.3 10 66.7 85.0
2 0.6 0.9 2 0.7 0.8 0.0 3.3
39 12.5 10.8 34 11.4 10.8 5 33.3 11.7
0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0
17 5.4 6.1 17 5.7 6.0 0.0 8.3
74 23.7 23.2 67 22.6 21.7 7 46.7 60.0
63 20.2 18.6 62 20.9 19.2 1 6.7 3.3
79 25.3 25.5 74 24.9 25.7 5 33.3 20.0
4 0.0 0.0 4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
3 75.0 80.0 3 75.0 77.8 100.0
FETAL&INFANT MORTALITY
10. PERINATAL DEATHS
11. FETAL DEATHS
12. NEONATAL (UNDER 28 DAYS)
13. POSTNEONATAL (28 DAYS- 1 YEAR)
14. INFANT DEATHS (UNDER 1 YEAR)
1 3.2 4.0 1 3.4 4.2
1 3.2 3.4 1 3.4 3.5
0.0 0.7 0.0 0.7
2 6.4 3.4 2 6.7 2.8
2 6.4 4.0 2 6.7 3.5
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 0.0
0.0 16.7
0.0 16.7
DEATHS (EXCLUDING FETALS)
15. TOTAL
MALES
FEMALES
16. AGE
00-04 YEARS
05-14 YEARS
15-24 YEARS
25-34 YEARS
35-44 YEARS
45-54 YEARS
55-64 YEARS
65 AND OVER
17
.
PLACE OF DEATH
HOSPITAL
OTHER INSTITUTION
HOME OR NON- INSTITUTION
18
OCCURRENCE
TOTAL
TO RESIDENTS
206 7.3 7.5 202 7.4 7.3 4 4.2 10.8
111 7.9 7.6 109 8.1 7.5 2 4.0 11.5
95 6.7 7.3 93 6.8 7.2 2 4.3 10.1
2 1.3 0.9 2 1.4 0.8 0.0 3.0
0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
4 1.2 0.8 4 1.3 0.8 0.0 1.4
5 1.2 0.8 5 1.2 0.8 0.0 1.3
16 3.1 1.6 16 3.2 1.6 0.0 3.6
10 2.5 3.5