2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

WORK LEAVE AFTER PREGNANCY

How many weeks or months of leave, in total, did you take or will you take?1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
6 weeks or less 7-12 weeks 13 weeks or more
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 365 63 16.1 12.1-21.0 224 63.3 57.3-68.9 78 20.6 16.2-25.9
Age
< 25 years 40 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 236 44 17.2 12.3-23.6 138 61.6 54.1-68.6 54 21.1 15.7-27.8
35+ years 89 12 12.6 6.8-22.4 *** *** *** 15 16.3 9.5-26.4
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 209 27 11.3 7.3-17.1 132 66.3 58.7-73.2 50 22.4 16.6-29.4
Non-Hispanic Black 73 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 15 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 49 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 20 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 42 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 303 43 12.5 8.9-17.3 193 66.4 60.0-72.2 67 21.1 16.3-26.9
Marital Status
Married 256 34 13.3 9.1-19.0 162 64.8 57.7-71.3 60 21.9 16.6-28.3
Other 109 29 22.0 14.2-32.4 *** *** *** 18 17.9 10.8-28.3
Medicaid recipient
No 246 33 13.3 9.2-19.0 157 65.6 58.5-72.1 56 21.1 15.9-27.4
Yes 119 30 22.3 14.4-32.9 *** *** *** 22 19.7 12.2-30.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 115 25 24.5 16.9-34.0 65 53.5 43.9-63.0 25 22.0 15.0-31.1
2500+ grams 250 38 15.4 11.2-20.7 159 64.1 57.6-70.1 53 20.5 15.8-26.2

1Asked only of mothers who reported taking leave from work after their new baby was born.
This question was new in Phase 8 (2016 - 2020). For more information please visit PRAMS–Annual Questionnaires.

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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