2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

FOLIC ACID

Multivitamin Consumption One Month Prior to Pregnancy (a pill that contains many different vitamins and minerals)1.

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 Did Not Take Daily Multivitamin Took Daily Multivitamin
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 781 388 52.7 48.4-56.9 393 47.3 43.1-51.6
Age
< 25 years 155 115 79.6 71.0-86.2 40 20.4 13.8-29.0
25-34 years 460 218 48.5 43.0-54.0 242 51.5 46.0-57.0
35+ years 166 55 33.6 25.8-42.4 111 66.4 57.6-74.2
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 399 166 41.8 36.1-47.7 233 58.2 52.3-63.9
Non-Hispanic Black 152 91 67.7 58.2-75.9 61 32.3 24.1-41.8
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 158 88 59.2 49.8-68.0 70 40.8 32.0-50.2
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 164 105 64.4 54.8-73.1 59 35.6 26.9-45.2
> High School 521 221 45.8 40.8-51.0 300 54.2 49.0-59.2
Marital Status
Married 474 181 41.0 35.8-46.4 293 59.0 53.6-64.2
Other 307 207 70.4 63.7-76.3 100 29.6 23.7-36.3
Medicaid recipient
No 407 154 39.8 34.3-45.5 253 60.2 54.5-65.7
Yes 374 234 67.0 60.9-72.6 140 33.0 27.4-39.1
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 276 142 51.7 45.5-57.9 134 48.3 42.1-54.5
2500+ grams 505 246 52.7 48.1-57.3 259 47.3 42.7-51.9

1 Asked 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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