Emails, Brian Tsai, public affairs specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oct. 6 and 10, 2017

From: Selby, Gardner (CMG-Austin)

Sent: Friday, October 6, 2017 9:49 AM

Subject: Texas reporter, inquiry for fact-check

Good morning. On behalf of the PolitiFact Texas fact-checking project, I seek the latest available data for babies born, by state. Is there any information available providing more detail or more recent counts than what's in Table 10 of this report? Https:/www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdf

We also would welcome information and analysis covering more years. For instance, how long has Texas accounted for 1 in 10 US-born babies? When did this change?

As ever, we seek on-the-record attributable assistance.

Thanks,

W. Gardner Selby

PolitiFact Texas

Austin American-Statesman

(Brian Tsai)

12:43 p.m.

The report you are referencing is the latest births report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).  We do have 2016 birth data by state available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm

You can also access historical birth data in the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/vsus.htm

Brian

7:38 a.m.

Oct. 10, 2017

Page 90 has state-by-state births for 2016

ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/DVS/natality/UserGuide2016.pdf