> >>> dhenwood at panix.com 12/08/05 11:05 AM >>>
>Michael Hoover wrote:
>><http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_stats.html>
>>pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19
>>1972 95.1
>>1990 116.9
>>2000 83.6
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>>and i'm sure that some social scientists found above to be
>>statistically significant...
>
>That's a 23% increase followed by a 28% decline. I don't think that's
>small. The social significance is something else, though.
>Doug
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>aren't those numbers, not percentages...
Rates per thousand, which are percentages with a shift in the decmial place.