STATS FINAL PROJECT: ABORTION IN THE US NUMBERS BY AGE (1990, 2000, 2005)
By Jeanai Celestin May 2014
Abortion in the United States, and abortion-related issues, are the subject of intense public and political debate and discussion in the United States. Various anti-abortion laws had been on every state statute book since at least 1900. Abortion was prohibited in 30 states and legal under certain circumstances (such as pregnancies resulting from rape, incest, and date drug.) in 20 states. The Supreme Court 1973 decision Roe v. Wade invalidated all of these laws, and set guidelines for the availability of abortion.
THE DATA THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ANALYZING IS THE WHOLE FIRST COLUMN SECTION TITLED : " Number (1,000) "
and ONLY THE "Age of women" PORTION.
and ONLY THE "Age of women" PORTION.
FIRST BAR: Less than 15 years old
SECOND BAR: 15-19 years old
THIRD BAR: 20-24 years old
FOURTH BAR: 25-29 years old
FIFTH BAR: 30-34 years old
SIXTH BAR: 35-39 years old
LAST BAR: 40 years and older
****Applies to all data plots.
SECOND BAR: 15-19 years old
THIRD BAR: 20-24 years old
FOURTH BAR: 25-29 years old
FIFTH BAR: 30-34 years old
SIXTH BAR: 35-39 years old
LAST BAR: 40 years and older
****Applies to all data plots.
THIS IS DATA FROM THE YEAR 2000
DATA FROM THE YEAR 2005
QUESTIONS:::
- Which year saw the most abortions as a whole? 1990
- What is the median for this data set? 25-29 years old
- What is the mean for this data? 20-24 years old
- What events in recent history do you think may have had an influence on this data? Pro-decision (political/ human rights controversies)
- Which way is the data skewed? Right.
- Do you think the way the data is represented is a good model? No Too many numbers, too small of a graph. Looks the same.
- What is the outlier? Is it the same in all models? Under 15 years of age.
- How can this data be better represented? More detail on the y-axis.
- Would another part of the data collected (race, marital status etc) be more informative? IT might be more interesting.
- Would you get an abortion? ehh.. That's personal.