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10.10.3 Teenage Pregnancy Rate
10.10.3.1 Prevalence
From the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the conception rates for females aged 15-
17 years are given in Figure 244 for Hull and England. The rate includes all
conceptions (in the numerator) for females under 18 years, but the population
(denominator) used to determine the rate only includes females aged 15-17 years as the
majority of the conceptions will be in the older ages and there are few conceptions for
those aged under 15 years. The majority of the conceptions will be for those aged 17
years. It can be seen that the rates remained relatively unchanged between 2001 and
2008 for both Hull and England with a slight decrease for the most recent year, but there
was more year-on-year variability in Hull. However, taking the whole period from 1998
to 2009, there has been a fall in the rate for both Hull and England. The underlying data
are given in the APPENDIX on page 940.
Figure 244: Conception rate for females aged 15-17 years for Hull, 2001 to 2009
Under 18 conception rate per 1,000 women
aged 15-17 years
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Year
England Hull
Table 354 gives the under 18 conception rates per 1,000 females aged 15-17 years for
2009 for Hull and comparator areas from ONS. Hull has this highest rate of the 10
comparators, and North East Lincolnshire.
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