2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

PRECONCEPTION CARE

During any of your health care visits in the 12 months before you got pregnant, did a doctor, nurse, or other health care worker do any of the following things? TALKED TO ME ABOUT MY DESIRE TO HAVE OR NOT HAVE CHILDREN1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 512 258 50.3 45.0-55.5 254 49.7 44.5-55.0
Age
< 25 years 71 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 309 152 47.8 41.2-54.5 157 52.2 45.5-58.8
35+ years 132 61 44.9 35.3-54.9 71 55.1 45.1-64.7
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 324 154 45.5 39.1-52.0 170 54.5 48.0-60.9
Non-Hispanic Black 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 58 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 32 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 401 190 46.7 41.0-52.6 211 53.3 47.4-59.0
Marital Status
Married 362 163 44.9 38.9-51.0 199 55.1 49.0-61.1
Other 150 95 62.7 52.5-71.8 55 37.3 28.2-47.5
Medicaid recipient
No 331 147 44.1 37.9-50.4 184 55.9 49.6-62.1
Yes 181 111 61.8 52.5-70.3 70 38.2 29.7-47.5
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 174 90 52.6 44.8-60.3 84 47.4 39.7-55.2
2500+ grams 338 168 50.1 44.4-55.7 170 49.9 44.3-55.6

1Asked of mothers who reported health care visit before pregnancy.
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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