"Notably, the provisional report does not include an analysis of births by the mother's race or ethnicity, even though those were included in this report in the last few years. CDC told NPR in a statement that this year's report is 'covering fewer topics than previous provisional birth reports,' but also that race data is still available on CDC's WONDER online database."

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/09/nx-s1-5777587/teen-birth-rates-hit-another-historical-low-2025-cdc

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@bich

Which has become more difficult to use and more difficult to pull summary figures from. I've taught from that dataset for a long time now and it's clearly been more opaque deliberately.