For 33 states with data on infant mortality by race in 1980, the infant mortality of African Americans was predicted by illegitimacy rates whereas Caucasian infant mortality was predicted by the percentage of adults separated and the percentage with a college education.
References
1.
Bureau of the Census. Census of the population, 1980. Washington, DO. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984a.
2.
Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984b.
3.
LesterD.Infant mortality and illegitimacy. Social Science & Medicine, 1992, 35, 739–740.
4.
National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Statistics of the United States, 1980. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.
