The 2006 Indiana Natality Report includes information on
live births to Indiana
residents that occurred during calendar year 2006. Information is presented at the state, county, and city level (for the 31 Indiana cities with populations over 25,000). This
report includes data by age, race, and marital status of the parents; characteristics of the newborn, e.g., birth order and
age of mother; and outcome indicators, e.g., alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy, gestation length, and birthweight.
The 2006 Indiana Natality Report also includes information on the number of reported pregnancies by county of residence
and age of mother. Reported pregnancies include resident live births, fetal deaths, and terminated pregnancies (performed in Indiana). Rates
per 1,000 females in selected age groups are also provided.
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH), through provisions in
Indiana Code 16-37-1, administers "...a system of vital
statistics for Indiana." The ISDH Vital Records Division compiles data from original birth certificates filed with the
ISDH and from transcripts of original certificates for Indiana residents giving birth in other states. The Data Analysis Team of
the Public Health System Development and Data Commission compiles these data and produces standard statistical reports.
The ISDH receives information from other states on Indiana residents who have given birth outside of Indiana (resident
out-of-state [ROOS] births). The
method of coding the month that prenatal care began is not uniform from state to state. Because of these inconsistencies, this
variable has been standardized and recalculated for all ROOS births.
Indiana did not receive transcripts for all of the 2006 ROOS
births that occurred in Illinois to Indiana residents. We estimate that we
lack data for approximately 95 birth records, and most of those births would
have occurred to Lake County residents. The numbers are low enough that we
do not feel this will impact any of the 2006 natality rates for Lake County or
for any of the other Indiana counties that may lack ROOS birth data.
Indiana currently uses the 1977 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity.
These standards are in use by all states who have not yet revised their birth certificates to meet the 1997 OMB standards for
collecting race and ethnicity information. The 1977 standards are also the standards used by the National Vital Statistics
System for national reporting. The relationship between these two OMB standards and the terms used to report race and
ethnicity in this report are as follows:
Most tables in this report will print on one page (8.5" x 11") if margins are set to 0.25” in all dimensions and the tables
are viewed at the smallest font size.
The data file for this report was closed on April 25, 2008.