2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SMOKING

Preconception Smoking1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 764 629 80.1 76.2-83.5 135 19.9 16.5-23.8
Age
< 25 years 154 120 73.1 63.1-81.1 34 26.9 18.9-36.9
25-34 years 449 364 79.6 74.4-84.0 85 20.4 16.0-25.6
35+ years 161 145 90.6 84.3-94.5 16 9.4 5.5-15.7
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 393 319 79.1 73.4-83.8 74 20.9 16.2-26.6
Non-Hispanic Black 143 111 76.5 66.6-84.1 32 23.5 15.9-33.4
Non-Hispanic Other 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 158 147 93.4 87.4-96.7 11 6.6 3.3-12.6
Education
< High School 95 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 162 118 67.4 57.3-76.1 44 32.6 23.9-42.7
> High School 507 441 87.1 83.2-90.3 66 12.9 9.7-16.8
Marital Status
Married 464 417 89.5 85.4-92.6 47 10.5 7.4-14.6
Other 300 212 65.8 58.5-72.4 88 34.2 27.6-41.5
Medicaid recipient
No 403 373 92.5 88.8-95.0 30 7.5 5.0-11.2
Yes 361 256 66.0 59.3-72.1 105 34.0 27.9-40.7
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 269 215 78.7 73.0-83.4 54 21.3 16.6-27.0
2500+ grams 495 414 80.2 75.9-83.9 81 19.8 16.1-24.1

1Data in this table are recoded responses to survey question 33: In the 3 months before you got pregnant, how many cigarettes did you smoke on an average day?
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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