Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 35, Number 5, 1 May 2018 — STATISTICS [ARTICLE]

STATISTICS

MATERNAL • NH have the highest rates of infant mortality in HI - 2.3 times greater than Whites -with eight NH infant deaths per 1,000 live births versus 3.5 deaths for Whites. • A 10-year aggregate shows 45 percent of the extremely preterm births in Hawai'i are born to NH mothers in low ineome eommunities. • NH women less than 20 years old make up 63 percent of extremely preterm births in Hawai'i. • NH women less than 20 years old make up 76 percent of extremely preterm births in Hawai'i in low-ineome communities. PHYSICAL • There is a 37.5 percent point difference between NH females with BMI status of obese (58.2 percent) and non-Hawaiian females (20.7 percent) of the same age t range of 45-54 years old. • 17.4 percent of NH public middle school female students do not have breakfast any day of the week. • More than one-quarter (28.6 percent) of NH public high school female students have used electronic vapor products in the past 30 days. •Wāhine data indicates heavy drinking and binge drinking as aleohol behaviors that are more than double non-Hawaiian females. • In 2016, more than twice as many Native Hawaiian females had any type of cancer than Native Hawaiian males. MENĪAL • Approximately one-quarter of Native Hawaiian mothers ages 20 and younger experience postpartum depression eompared to one-fifth of the state rate. • More Native Hawaiian females in public high schools (24.1 percent) seriously eonsidered attempting suicide compared to non-Hawaiian females (18.7 percent) and females statewide (20.1 percent). • Ninth grade young wāhine experience feelings of sadness or hopelessness at the highest rates (47.7 percent) in the state; significantly greater than non-Hawaiian females (35.4 percent) and 10 percentage points higher than the State (37.7 percent). • Female 'ōpio in 9th grade report the highest rates of harming themselves on purpose in the state (42.2 percent). EC0N0MIC • Among Native Hawaiian families, 39 percent are single-parent, compared to the statewide rate of 26 percent; 28 percent of Native Hawaiian families were singlemother and 1 1 percent were single-father. • Merely 11.3 percent of all businesses owned by women in Hawai'i are owned by Native Hawaiian females. • Native Hawaiian women are paid 7 1 cents for every dollar men in Hawai'i get paid and 82 cents on the dollar that Native Hawaiian men get paid. • Less than half of wāhine are represented in computer and mathematical positions (0.4 percent) compared to kāne (1.1 percent) both of whom are out represented by statewide females (1.2 percent). •Wāhine between 25-34 are the highest poverty group (16.6 percent) for women. • A single Native Hawaiian mother's ineome is $46,002 per year. Her childcare costs for her infant are roughly 18 percent of her annual ineome. PARTNER VI0LENCE • Native Hawaiian females experience unwanted sex by an intimate partner 1.5 times more than their non-Hawaiian peers. • Native Hawaiian female youth experienee being forced to do sexual things by their date and are forced to have sexual intercourse more than twice as often as non-Hawaiian males in Hawai'i. • 38 percent of Native Hawaiian female youth experience being controlled or emotionally hurt by their date. INCARCERATI0N • Native Hawaiian females make up 43.7 percent of the incarcerated populahon in Hawai'i. •The highest proportion of incarcerated women are in "close" security prisons ( r\/ S nnivon t at [pmolp inmolpp i