The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, complying with a 1992 congressional mandate, yesterday released its first-ever consumer report listing success rates of fertility clinics nationwide, including nine in the New York metropolitan area.

The report placed the "take-home-baby rate" overall at 19.6 percent in 1995, based on a review of 59,142 procedures at 281 fertility clinics nationally. The rate drops to 18.2 percent per cycle for women between 35 and 39, and 8 percent for women older than 39.

Seventy percent of the procedures reviewed in the report involved in-vitro fertilization (IVF or test-tube conception), where a woman's eggs were retrieved from the ovaries, put into a dish with sperm, and then placed into the uterus; 14 percent of cases involved frozen embryos from non-donated eggs that were thawed and transferred into the woman's uterus after IVF; and donated eggs were used in another 8 percent of in-vitro cases. The other 8 percent is through either gamete (sperm) or zygote (fertilized eggs) intrafallopian transfer.