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: HOSPITAL STAFF GAVE ME INFO ABOUT BREASTFEEDING1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 679 37 5.8 3.9- 8.5 642 94.2 91.5-96.1
Age
< 25 years 134 *** *** *** 127 94.3 86.1-97.8
25-34 years 401 19 5.9 3.5- 9.7 382 94.1 90.3-96.5
35+ years 144 11 5.5 2.7-10.8 133 94.5 89.2-97.3
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 348 17 5.3 3.1- 9.1 331 94.7 90.9-96.9
Non-Hispanic Black 118 *** *** *** 110 92.1 82.9-96.6
Non-Hispanic Other 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 147 *** *** *** 140 97.2 93.4-98.9
Education
< High School 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 135 14 11.7 6.2-21.0 121 88.3 79.0-93.8
> High School 463 17 3.3 1.9- 5.8 446 96.7 94.2-98.1
Marital Status
Married 429 21 3.5 2.1- 5.8 408 96.5 94.2-97.9
Other 250 16 9.7 5.7-16.2 234 90.3 83.8-94.3
Medicaid recipient
No 374 15 3.6 2.0- 6.2 359 96.4 93.8-98.0
Yes 305 22 8.6 5.1-14.0 283 91.4 86.0-94.9
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 229 14 6.1 3.6-10.3 215 93.9 89.7-96.4
2500+ grams 450 23 5.8 3.8- 8.7 427 94.2 91.3-96.2

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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