Table 1.

First births and return to work within 12 months

	1980–1982	1990–1992	2000–2002	All Data
Total mothers with first births	1,822	1,948	1,755	14,074
% worked during pregnancy	60.4	67.0	68.1	65.4
Total worked during pregnancy	1,100	1,305	1,195	9,198
% full time	88.2	88.4	85.6	87.2
% returned to work within 12 months	71.4	80.0	77.4	71.4
Total worked full-time during pregnancy	970	1,154	1,023	8,016
Status upon return, return within 12 months
% not working	27.1	18.8	21.3	20.3
% full-time, same employer	49.6	58.1	50.0	54.0
% full-time, different employer	10.5	10.3	7.4	10.3
% part-time, same employer	7.7	8.3	16.0	10.5
% part-time, different employer	5.1	4.4	5.3	5.0

Source: Data for 1980–1989 are from wave 2 of the 1996 SIPP

data for 1990–2002 are from wave 2 of the 2004 SIPP