Table 1 Summary Statistics
2009–201520122014
VariableMeanSDMeanSDMeanSD
Abortion rate (per 1,000 women)
   Total11.685.0511.784.989.464.32
   Non-Hispanic12.375.8312.485.9610.314.59
   Hispanic10.714.6510.784.298.284.29
   <7 weeks gestationa5.452.535.842.323.311.56
   7–12 weeks gestationa5.842.575.662.65.462.27
   >12 weeks gestationa1.030.460.980.461.120.47
Birth rate (per 1,000 women)
   Total71.119.7469.659.3870.69.33
   Age 15–1944.8616.9844.3415.5237.7413.94
   Age 20–29111.7424.12108.9523.38109.923.6
   Age 30–3971.7410.5870.739.8475.39.97
   Age 40–4410.082.859.982.7410.292.93
   White62.418.8961.749.1263.649.12
   Black63.9910.0662.39.6164.3310.32
   Hispanic83.0111.1280.449.8780.1710
   Other62.0611.4163.5112.3563.1410.36
   First birtha23.423.2322.992.9723.033.19
   Second birtha47.657.4646.627.0447.527.37
   Marrieda41.215.5340.335.2641.155.16
   Unmarrieda29.918.629.328.3629.458.46
Measures of abortion access
   Distance (100s of miles) (100,000s)0.280.480.20.330.450.7
   Average service population1.920.921.460.492.620.66
Race
   White40.0419.0240.0519.0439.218.65
   Black13.058.3913.028.3813.198.37
   Hispanic41.3521.4441.421.4641.7321.17
   Other5.563.935.533.895.884.14
Age distribution
   15–1916.722.0116.61.9616.411.94
   20–2934.033.934.084.0334.23.72
   30–3933.12.7332.972.7133.152.61
   40–4416.151.916.341.9416.251.88
Economic conditions
   Unemployment rate6.591.866.771.415.171.22
  • Sources: Authors’ compilation of clinic operations, annual county-level population estimates from SEER (2016), abortions by county of residence from the Texas DSHS (2017a, 2017b; 2018), geographic coordinates of county population centroids from the U.S. Census Bureau (2016), and unemployment rates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016).

  • Notes: Population-weighted summary statistics calculated for Texas counties (n = 254) for the pooled sample period (2009–2015) and individually for 2012 (the year prior to HB-2) and 2014 (the year after HB-2).

  • a Rate is calculated using population of women aged 15–44 as denominator. All other rates are calculated using population of women in the indicator racial, ethnic, or age group as denominator.