2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

INTENDEDNESS OF PREGNANCY

When you got pregnant with your new baby, were you trying to become pregnant?1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 775 339 45.7 41.5-50.0 436 54.3 50.0-58.5
Age
< 25 years 154 96 62.6 52.6-71.6 58 37.4 28.4-47.4
25-34 years 458 188 42.1 36.7-47.7 270 57.9 52.3-63.3
35+ years 163 55 37.0 28.7-46.1 108 63.0 53.9-71.3
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 400 134 35.2 29.6-41.1 266 64.8 58.9-70.4
Non-Hispanic Black 152 99 66.9 57.3-75.4 53 33.1 24.6-42.7
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 152 71 48.3 38.8-58.0 81 51.7 42.0-61.2
Education
< High School 91 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 164 93 59.8 50.1-68.7 71 40.2 31.3-49.9
> High School 520 193 39.4 34.5-44.6 327 60.6 55.4-65.5
Marital Status
Married 471 137 31.9 27.1-37.3 334 68.1 62.7-72.9
Other 304 202 66.8 59.9-73.1 102 33.2 26.9-40.1
Medicaid recipient
No 403 118 32.5 27.2-38.2 285 67.5 61.8-72.8
Yes 372 221 60.5 54.0-66.6 151 39.5 33.4-46.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 275 131 51.9 45.8-58.1 144 48.1 41.9-54.2
2500+ grams 500 208 45.1 40.5-49.8 292 54.9 50.2-59.5

1Asked of all mothers.
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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