title: Teenage births to ethnic minority women.
abstract: This article analyses British age-specific fertility rates by ethnic group, with a special interest in child-bearing by women below the age of 20. Birth statistics are not analysed by ethnic group, and teenage birth rates have been estimated from the dates of birth of mothers and children in the Labour Force Survey. The method appears to be robust. Caribbean, Pakistani and especially Bangladeshi women were much more likely to have been teenage mothers than white women, but Indian women were below the national average. Teenage birth rates have been falling in all three South Asian communities.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Berthoud
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D001459:Bangladesh / Q000208:ethnology; D001723:Birth Rate / Q000208:ethnology / Q000639:trends; D017691:Caribbean Region / Q000208:ethnology; D003710:Demography; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005298:Fertility; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008423:Maternal Age; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010154:Pakistan / Q000208:ethnology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011247:Pregnancy; D011253:Pregnancy in Adolescence / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014798:Vital Statistics; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data