Census confirms Mormons have many children

Posted by on August 11, 2009; This entry is filed under Uncategorized.
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I’ve been poking around the Census data sets for a few days now. I want to merge them with the longevity stuff soon, but while was at it I decided to check to see how variation in geography related to variation in fertility. You can go to the GSS and see all sorts of national trends, but I thought a county-by-county view would be of interest. Click the images for bigger versions. The fertility is defined as “women with births in the past 12 months; rate per 1,000 women.” Coming out of the American Community Survey. All the data are for Non-Hispanic white women.

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3 Comments

  1. Peter August 11th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    So … what’s the deal with Washington County, Florida? It’s not that small a county, population around 22K, so the highest-in-the-nation fertility rate is probably not an artifact caused by a very small sample size.

  2. Donna B. August 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

    What’s up with Louisiana?

  3. razib August 11th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    hm. either they didn’t report, or i forgot to strip out “parish” when i merged the data sets.

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