2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

SOCIAL STRESS

Stressful Event: You had problems paying the rent, mortgage or other bills1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 777 676 86.5 83.2-89.3 101 13.5 10.7-16.8
Age
< 25 years 154 129 80.4 71.0-87.2 25 19.6 12.8-29.0
25-34 years 458 402 87.8 83.6-91.1 56 12.2 8.9-16.4
35+ years 165 145 89.9 84.0-93.8 20 10.1 6.2-16.0
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 401 362 91.0 86.9-93.8 39 9.0 6.2-13.1
Non-Hispanic Black 145 113 77.2 67.6-84.6 32 22.8 15.4-32.4
Non-Hispanic Other 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 159 138 85.4 77.1-91.0 21 14.6 9.0-22.9
Education
< High School 96 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 161 133 82.6 73.8-89.0 28 17.4 11.0-26.2
> High School 520 464 89.0 85.3-91.9 56 11.0 8.1-14.7
Marital Status
Married 477 442 92.2 88.6-94.7 35 7.8 5.3-11.4
Other 300 234 77.8 71.3-83.2 66 22.2 16.8-28.7
Medicaid recipient
No 410 385 93.3 89.8-95.7 25 6.7 4.3-10.2
Yes 367 291 78.9 73.0-83.7 76 21.1 16.3-27.0
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 270 231 84.0 78.7-88.2 39 16.0 11.8-21.3
2500+ grams 507 445 86.8 83.2-89.7 62 13.2 10.3-16.8

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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