2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SOCIAL STRESS

Stressful Event: A close family member was very sick and had to go to the hospital1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 777 637 81.1 77.5-84.3 140 18.9 15.7-22.5
Age
< 25 years 154 120 76.6 67.1-84.0 34 23.4 16.0-32.9
25-34 years 459 388 83.3 78.7-87.1 71 16.7 12.9-21.3
35+ years 164 129 79.2 71.2-85.4 35 20.8 14.6-28.8
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 400 310 76.7 71.3-81.4 90 23.3 18.6-28.7
Non-Hispanic Black 146 126 84.5 75.7-90.6 20 15.5 9.4-24.3
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 159 139 87.4 79.3-92.7 20 12.6 7.3-20.7
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 162 140 82.6 73.6-89.0 22 17.4 11.0-26.4
> High School 519 412 80.0 75.6-83.8 107 20.0 16.2-24.4
Marital Status
Married 476 389 81.6 77.1-85.4 87 18.4 14.6-22.9
Other 301 248 80.4 74.0-85.5 53 19.6 14.5-26.0
Medicaid recipient
No 409 332 81.6 76.8-85.5 77 18.4 14.5-23.2
Yes 368 305 80.6 74.8-85.4 63 19.4 14.6-25.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 271 223 83.0 77.9-87.2 48 17.0 12.8-22.1
2500+ grams 506 414 81.0 77.0-84.4 92 19.0 15.6-23.0

1Data from survey question 43. This question is about things that may have happened during the 12 months before your new baby was born.
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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