State Teen Pregnancy Rates

Description

State teen pregnancy rates, Civil War participation, and church attendance.

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 4 variables.

State

State abbreviation

CivilWar

Role in Civil War (B=border, C=Confederate, O=other, or U=union)

Church

Percentage who attended church in previous week (from a state survey)

Teen

Number of pregnancies per 1000 teenage girls in state

Details

State level data on teen pregnancies, church attendance, and role in the U.S. Civil War.

Source

2010 teen pregnancy rate, per 1000 teenage women, per year. Source: Guttmacher Institute, via Tanya Lewis (5 May 2014) "Teen pregnancy rates by state," https://www.livescience.com