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? TELL ME TO TAKE A VITAMIN WITH FOLIC ACID1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 511 301 61.2 56.1-66.2 210 38.8 33.8-43.9
Age
< 25 years 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 310 184 60.8 54.2-67.0 126 39.2 33.0-45.8
35+ years 132 71 55.6 45.6-65.1 61 44.4 34.9-54.4
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 323 185 57.0 50.5-63.3 138 43.0 36.7-49.5
Non-Hispanic Black 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 23 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 31 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 79 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 401 230 60.2 54.5-65.7 171 39.8 34.3-45.5
Marital Status
Married 362 192 56.3 50.2-62.2 170 43.7 37.8-49.8
Other 149 109 72.9 62.9-81.0 40 27.1 19.0-37.1
Medicaid recipient
No 331 175 55.1 48.8-61.3 156 44.9 38.7-51.2
Yes 180 126 72.7 63.9-80.1 54 27.3 19.9-36.1
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 174 103 60.1 52.2-67.4 71 39.9 32.6-47.8
2500+ grams 337 198 61.3 55.8-66.6 139 38.7 33.4-44.2

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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