TABLE 1.
Count and percent of cases and live births to foreign-born mothers by race/ethnicity, 1999–2007
| Non-Hispanic white |
Hispanic (Total) |
Hispanic (Mexican)a |
Non-Hispanic black |
Non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific islander |
Totalb |
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| State | Years | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | FB | FB + US | (% FB) | |
| Arizona | 1999–2007 | Cases | 172 | 3,866 | (4.4) | 2,270 | 3,854 | (58.9) | 2,170 | 3,677 | (59.0) | 21 | 233 | (9.0) | 150 | 178 | (84.3) | 2,613 | 8,131 | (32.1) |
| Arizona | 1999–2007 | Live births | 17,811 | 351,285 | (5.1) | 209,877 | 352,507 | (59.5) | 200,099 | 333,613 | (60.0) | 3,155 | 25,192 | (12.5) | 16,572 | 20,696 | (80.1) | 247,415 | 749,680 | (33.0) |
| Colorado | 1999–2007 | Cases | 266 | 5,765 | (4.6) | 1,098 | 2,306 | (47.6) | 1,001 | 1,763 | (56.8) | 78 | 346 | (22.5) | 168 | 205 | (82.0) | 1,610 | 8,622 | (18.7) |
| Colorado | 1999–2007 | Live births | 22,177 | 374,165 | (5–9) | 97,179 | 185,111 | (52.5) | 88,419 | 142,532 | (62.0) | 4,645 | 25,653 | (18.1) | 16,169 | 19,620 | (82.4) | 140,170 | 604,549 | (23.2) |
| Florida | 1999–2007 | Cases | 731 | 13,855 | (5.3) | 3,519 | 5,368 | (65.6) | 746 | 1,181 | (63.2) | 1,035 | 4,392 | (23.6) | 339 | 393 | (86.3) | 5,624 | 24,008 | (23.4) |
| Florida | 1999–2007 | Live births | 68,877 | 936,812 | (7.4) | 356,266 | 505,528 | (70.5) | 95,709 | 126,774 | (75.5) | 106,651 | 418,839 | (25.5) | 43,623 | 49,072 | (88.9) | 575,417 | 1,910,251 | (30.1) |
| Illinois | 1999–2007 | Cases | 513 | 7,202 | (7.1) | 1,661 | 2,380 | (69.8) | 1,468 | 2,028 | (72.4) | 86 | 1,860 | (4.6) | 432 | 490 | (88.2) | 2,692 | 11,932 | (22.6) |
| Illinois | 1999–2007 | Live births | 71,484 | 899,223 | (7–9) | 260,583 | 375,690 | (69.4) | 233,752 | 317,632 | (73.6) | 11,760 | 288,419 | (4.1) | 69,459 | 78,224 | (88.8) | 413,286 | 1,641,556 | (25.2) |
| Massachusetts | 2000–2007 | Cases | 300 | 3,040 | (9.9) | 300 | 450 | (66.7) | 1 | 5 | (20.0) | 140 | 299 | (46.8) | 191 | 216 | (88.4) | 931 | 4,005 | (23.2) |
| Massachusetts | 2000–2007 | Live births | 48,215 | 440,238 | (11.0) | 41,779 | 64,988 | (64.3) | 2,855 | 3,777 | (75.6) | 23,035 | 48,269 | (47.7) | 37,366 | 41,707 | (89.6) | 150,395 | 595,202 | (25.3) |
| Michigan | 1999–2007 | Cases | 1,626 | 24,784 | (6.6) | 1,082 | 1,949 | (55.5) | 913 | 1,558 | (58.6) | 198 | 7,234 | (2.7) | 875 | 979 | (89.4) | 3,781 | 34,946 | (10.8) |
| Michigan | 1999–2007 | Live births | 50,823 | 849,213 | (6.0) | 35,807 | 68,817 | (52.0) | 30,536 | 55,233 | (55.3) | 5,406 | 204,965 | (2.6) | 30,017 | 34,443 | (87.1) | 122,053 | 1,157,438 | (10.5) |
| North Carolina | 2003–2007 | Cases | 142 | 4,385 | (3.2) | 862 | 978 | (88.1) | 688 | 745 | (92.3) | 62 | 1,360 | (4.6) | 11 | 12 | (91.7) | 1,077 | 6,735 | (16.0) |
| North Carolina | 2003–2007 | Live births | 14,222 | 353,978 | (4.0) | 84,403 | 96,166 | (87.8) | 64,908 | 71,167 | (91.2) | 7,335 | 142,558 | (5.1) | 1,570 | 1,869 | (84.0) | 107,530 | 594,571 | (18.1) |
| Nebraska | 1999–2007 | Cases | 71 | 8,924 | (0.8) | 713 | 1,117 | (63.8) | 303 | 451 | (67.2) | 37 | 680 | (5.4) | 81 | 106 | (76.4) | 902 | 10,827 | (8.3) |
| Nebraska | 1999–2007 | Live births | 1,612 | 169,006 | (1.0) | 18,304 | 27,401 | (66.8) | 16,103 | 22,958 | (70.1) | 959 | 11,943 | (8.0) | 1,551 | 2,089 | (74.2) | 22,426 | 210,439 | (10.7) |
| New Jersey | 1999–2007 | Cases | 634 | 5,945 | (10.7) | 1,690 | 2,363 | (71.5) | 439 | 468 | (93.8) | 332 | 1,441 | (23.0) | 629 | 676 | (93.0) | 3,285 | 10,425 | (31.5) |
| New Jersey | 1999–2007 | Live births | 59,351 | 508,928 | (11.7) | 163,968 | 228,671 | (71.7) | 44,327 | 46,660 | (95.0) | 34,343 | 155,841 | (22.0) | 80,603 | 86,552 | (93.1) | 338,265 | 979,992 | (34.5) |
| New York | 1999–2007 | Cases | 465 | 10,860 | (4.3) | 995 | 1,502 | (66.2) | 169 | 203 | (83.3) | 233 | 1,237 | (18.8) | 289 | 328 | (88.1) | 1,982 | 13,927 | (14.2) |
| New York | 1999–2007 | Live births | 60,820 | 842,992 | (7–2) | 99,636 | 142,658 | (69.8) | 17,924 | 20,344 | (88.1) | 27,184 | 121,176 | (22.4) | 37,479 | 41,239 | (90.9) | 225,119 | 1,148,065 | (19.6) |
| Texas | 1999–2007 | Cases | 681 | 16,101 | (4.2) | 8,567 | 18,092 | (47.4) | 7,616 | 15,510 | (49.1) | 302 | 3,496 | (8.6) | 893 | 988 | (90.4) | 10,443 | 38,677 | (27.0) |
| Texas | 1999–2007 | Live births | 63,647 | 1,238,866 | (5.1) | 824,224 | 1,637,620 | (50.3) | 722,932 | 1,408,118 | (51.3) | 29,579 | 372,797 | (7.9) | 103,102 | 113,343 | (91.0) | 1,020,552 | 3,362,626 | (30.3) |
| All states | Cases | 5,601 | 104,727 | (5.3) | 22,757 | 40,359 | (56.4) | 15,514 | 27,589 | (56.2) | 2,524 | 22,578 | (11.2) | 4,058 | 4,571 | (88.8) | 34,940 | 172,235 | (20.3) | |
| All states | Live births | 479,039 | 6,964,706 | (6.9) | 2,192,026 | 3,685,157 | (59.5) | 1,517,564 | 2,548,808 | (59.5) | 254,052 | 1,815,652 | (14.0) | 437,511 | 488,854 | (89.5) | 3,362,628 | 12,954,369 | (26.0) | |
Note. Definitions: FB = Foreign-born mothers; FB + US = Foreign and US born mothers.
Percent Foreign-born is calculated for each racial/ethnic group as: (FB/[FB + US])*100.
Cases are counted without repetition (i.e., a single infant having multiple defect codes is counted only once for the purposes of this table).
a
The category Hispanics (Mexican) is a subset of the category Hispanics (Total).
b
Total excludes Native American/Alaskan Natives, Unknown race/ethnicity and nativity. Observations in the Hispanic (Mexican) category are counted in the total as part of the Hispanic (Total) category.