2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

MORBIDITY-MATERNAL

At any time during the 12 months before you got pregnant with your new baby, did you do any of the following things? I WAS DIETING (CHANGING MY EATING HABITS) TO LOSE WEIGHT1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 777 544 69.6 65.6-73.4 233 30.4 26.6-34.4
Age
< 25 years 153 127 83.2 74.5-89.3 26 16.8 10.7-25.5
25-34 years 458 303 64.5 59.0-69.6 155 35.5 30.4-41.0
35+ years 166 114 70.6 62.1-77.8 52 29.4 22.2-37.9
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 397 262 64.1 58.3-69.5 135 35.9 30.5-41.7
Non-Hispanic Black 150 111 75.4 66.2-82.8 39 24.6 17.2-33.8
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 158 115 72.2 63.2-79.7 43 27.8 20.3-36.8
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 162 131 78.5 69.4-85.4 31 21.5 14.6-30.6
> High School 519 335 65.2 60.2-69.8 184 34.8 30.2-39.8
Marital Status
Married 474 308 64.5 59.2-69.4 166 35.5 30.6-40.8
Other 303 236 77.6 71.2-82.9 67 22.4 17.1-28.8
Medicaid recipient
No 406 261 63.5 57.9-68.8 145 36.5 31.2-42.1
Yes 371 283 76.5 70.8-81.4 88 23.5 18.6-29.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 272 199 73.2 67.2-78.3 73 26.8 21.7-32.8
2500+ grams 505 345 69.3 64.9-73.4 160 30.7 26.6-35.1

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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