2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

BREASTFEEDING

About things that may have happened at the hospital where new baby was born: I BREASTFED MY BABY IN THE HOSPITAL1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 675 92 9.5 7.1-12.5 583 90.5 87.5-92.9
Age
< 25 years 134 17 8.5 4.1-16.8 117 91.5 83.2-95.9
25-34 years 398 57 10.4 7.3-14.6 341 89.6 85.4-92.7
35+ years 143 18 7.5 4.2-12.9 125 92.5 87.1-95.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 346 39 8.4 5.4-12.8 307 91.6 87.2-94.6
Non-Hispanic Black 117 23 15.4 9.1-24.9 94 84.6 75.1-90.9
Non-Hispanic Other 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 146 17 6.0 3.2-11.3 129 94.0 88.7-96.8
Education
< High School 80 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 134 25 16.4 9.7-26.3 109 83.6 73.7-90.3
> High School 461 54 6.6 4.6- 9.5 407 93.4 90.5-95.4
Marital Status
Married 427 49 6.9 4.7-10.2 378 93.1 89.8-95.3
Other 248 43 13.8 9.2-20.2 205 86.2 79.8-90.8
Medicaid recipient
No 373 45 7.7 5.1-11.3 328 92.3 88.7-94.9
Yes 302 47 11.7 7.9-17.2 255 88.3 82.8-92.1
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 228 61 27.4 21.7-33.9 167 72.6 66.1-78.3
2500+ grams 447 31 7.9 5.5-11.2 416 92.1 88.8-94.5

1Asked only of mothers that delivered at a hospital
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 2020 was 45%.

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