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 TOLD ME TO BREASTFEED WHENEVER MY BABY WANTED1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 672 144 18.2 14.9-22.1 528 81.8 77.9-85.1
Age
< 25 years 133 33 28.0 19.2-38.8 100 72.0 61.2-80.8
25-34 years 396 85 16.5 12.6-21.3 311 83.5 78.7-87.4
35+ years 143 26 12.2 7.7-18.8 117 87.8 81.2-92.3
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 346 77 18.0 13.5-23.6 269 82.0 76.4-86.5
Non-Hispanic Black 114 26 17.6 10.9-27.2 88 82.4 72.8-89.1
Non-Hispanic Other 36 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 146 25 16.8 10.4-25.8 121 83.2 74.2-89.6
Education
< High School 81 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 133 36 29.5 20.3-40.6 97 70.5 59.4-79.7
> High School 458 87 12.5 9.5-16.2 371 87.5 83.8-90.5
Marital Status
Married 426 87 14.4 11.0-18.7 339 85.6 81.3-89.0
Other 246 57 24.7 18.4-32.3 189 75.3 67.7-81.6
Medicaid recipient
No 370 69 13.8 10.3-18.3 301 86.2 81.7-89.7
Yes 302 75 23.7 18.0-30.5 227 76.3 69.5-82.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 227 77 34.8 28.6-41.6 150 65.2 58.4-71.4
2500+ grams 445 67 16.7 13.2-21.0 378 83.3 79.0-86.8

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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