2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

PRENATAL CARE-TIMING

First Trimester Entry into Prenatal Care1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 YES NO
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 770 654 85.6 82.3-88.4 116 14.4 11.6-17.7
Age
< 25 years 148 118 79.9 71.2-86.6 30 20.1 13.4-28.8
25-34 years 459 390 86.4 82.2-89.7 69 13.6 10.3-17.8
35+ years 163 146 89.9 83.0-94.3 17 10.1 5.7-17.0
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 398 367 92.5 88.6-95.1 31 7.5 4.9-11.4
Non-Hispanic Black 149 123 82.4 73.4-88.8 26 17.6 11.2-26.6
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 152 106 72.3 63.3-79.9 46 27.7 20.1-36.7
Education
< High School 92 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 157 119 79.6 71.1-86.1 38 20.4 13.9-28.9
> High School 521 480 91.4 87.8-94.0 41 8.6 6.0-12.2
Marital Status
Married 471 428 90.3 86.6-93.1 43 9.7 6.9-13.4
Other 299 226 78.3 72.0-83.5 73 21.7 16.5-28.0
Medicaid recipient
No 407 368 90.0 86.0-93.0 39 10.0 7.0-14.0
Yes 363 286 80.5 75.0-85.1 77 19.5 14.9-25.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 270 225 82.2 76.8-86.6 45 17.8 13.4-23.2
2500+ grams 500 429 85.9 82.4-88.9 71 14.1 11.1-17.6

1Data in this table are recoded responses to survey question 22: How many weeks of months pregnant were you when you had your first visit for prenatal care?
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%.

This page was generated on 06SEP22

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