2018 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

PRECONCEPTION CARE

During any of your health care visits in the 12 months before you got pregnant, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? ASKED ME ABOUT THE KIND OF WORK I DO1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 625 237 37.9 33.5-42.4 388 62.1 57.6-66.5
Age
< 25 years 120 48 39.1 29.4-49.8 72 60.9 50.2-70.6
25-34 years 362 137 36.6 31.1-42.5 225 63.4 57.5-68.9
35+ years 143 52 39.7 31.0-49.1 91 60.3 50.9-69.0
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 390 160 43.2 37.9-48.7 230 56.8 51.3-62.1
Non-Hispanic Black 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 74 15 17.3 9.8-28.7 59 82.7 71.3-90.2
Education
< High School 49 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 118 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 457 175 38.3 33.4-43.5 282 61.7 56.5-66.6
Marital Status
Married 442 164 38.2 33.3-43.3 278 61.8 56.7-66.7
Other 183 73 37.2 29.0-46.2 110 62.8 53.8-71.0
Medicaid recipient
No 379 133 35.3 30.2-40.8 246 64.7 59.2-69.8
Yes 246 104 41.3 34.1-48.9 142 58.7 51.1-65.9
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 193 69 36.5 29.9-43.7 124 63.5 56.3-70.1
2500+ grams 432 168 38.0 33.3-42.8 264 62.0 57.2-66.7

1Asked of mothers who reported health care visit before pregnancy.
2Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.

*** This estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards.
N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).

The percentages shown are weighted percentages, designed to reflect the entire population of North Carolina women having a live birth.
The overall weighted response rate in 2018 was 53%.

This page was generated on 10OCT19

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