2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SMOKING

Have you smoked any cigarettes in the past 2 years?1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 776 611 76.4 72.4-80.0 165 23.6 20.0-27.6
Age
< 25 years 155 117 71.3 61.4-79.5 38 28.7 20.5-38.6
25-34 years 456 352 75.4 70.1-80.1 104 24.6 19.9-29.9
35+ years 165 142 86.2 79.2-91.1 23 13.8 8.9-20.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 400 306 74.4 68.7-79.4 94 25.6 20.6-31.3
Non-Hispanic Black 146 109 73.7 63.9-81.7 37 26.3 18.3-36.1
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 158 144 91.4 84.8-95.3 14 8.6 4.7-15.2
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 163 117 65.9 55.8-74.7 46 34.1 25.3-44.2
> High School 517 425 82.2 77.9-85.8 92 17.8 14.2-22.1
Marital Status
Married 474 406 84.9 80.4-88.5 68 15.1 11.5-19.6
Other 302 205 63.3 56.1-70.0 97 36.7 30.0-43.9
Medicaid recipient
No 410 362 88.2 83.9-91.4 48 11.8 8.6-16.1
Yes 366 249 63.0 56.4-69.2 117 37.0 30.8-43.6
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 272 209 75.6 69.7-80.6 63 24.4 19.4-30.3
2500+ grams 504 402 76.5 72.1-80.4 102 23.5 19.6-27.9

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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