Findings from the 2010 Current Population Survey also show that black women were more likely to be childless than Hispanic women; percentages for Asian women more closely resemble those for blacks and Hispanics than whites.
The Census Bureau uses age 44 as the age for completion of childbearing. The data show that 20.6% of white women were childless, compared with 17.2% of black women, 15.9% of Asian women and 12.4% of Hispanic women.
"One of the things that goes hand-in-hand with childlessness is high levels of education," says D'Vera Cohn of Pew Research Center, who co-authored a report on childlessness last year. "White women are more likely to be college-educated. That could be one key reason for the numbers you're seeing."
