25.5 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17 in 2004 (41.5 inEngland)
6.5% of live births weighed less than 2,500 grams in 2002 (7.7 per centin England)
2.9 infant deaths under one week per 1,000 women in 2002 (5.2 inEngland)
Since figures on the teenage pregnancy strategy were first collected in1998, the conception rate in North Yorkshire has dropped by 30.2 percent. In North Yorkshire's annual performance assessment last year,Ofsted commended the county on its "impressively low rates" achievedthrough good multi-agency working across the county. Significant fallsin the rate happened in 1999, before the strategy began, and againbetween 2003 and 2004.
Source: Teenage Pregnancy Unit, Office for National Statistics KeyPopulation and Vital Statistics 2002.
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