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Health Care Worker Told Mother About the Effects of Mercury
2006 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
    No       Yes    
Demographic Groups Population %   95% CI   %   95% CI  
  Total 14,152 20.6 18.0 - 23.4 79.5 76.6 - 82.1
Age              
<20 years 1,135 11.1 4.4 - 25.1 88.9 74.9 - 95.6
20-24 years 3,580 20.8 15.7 - 27.0 79.2 73.0 - 84.4
25-34 years 7,399 22.6 19.0 - 26.6 77.4 73.4 - 81.0
35+ years 2,037 17.4 11.9 - 24.8 82.6 75.2 - 88.1
Mother's Race              
White 13,494 20.3 17.7 - 23.2 79.7 76.8 - 82.3
Black 299 # # - # # # - #
Other  344 30.3 15.0 - 51.8 69.7 48.3 - 85.0
Hispanic Origin              
Yes 221^ # # - # # # - #
No 13,908^ 20.7 18.0 - 23.6 79.3 76.4 - 82.0
Education              
< High School 1,526 18.5 10.6 - 30.3 81.5 69.7 - 89.4
High School 4,759 21.5 16.9 - 26.9 78.5 73.1 - 83.1
> High School 7,786 20.3 17.1 - 24.0 79.7 76.0 - 82.9
Marital Status              
Married 8,934 21.9 18.7 - 25.5 78.1 74.6 - 81.3
Other 5,216 18.5 14.3 - 23.5 81.5 76.5 - 85.7
Income              
$14,999 or less 3,663** 20.2 15.1 - 26.3 79.9 73.7 - 84.9
$15,000-24,999 1,784** 19.4 13.1 - 27.7 80.6 72.3 - 86.9
$25,000-49,999 3,156** 22.2 17.1 - 28.4 77.8 71.6 - 82.9
$50,000 or more 4,693** 20.2 16.2 - 24.9 79.8 75.1 - 83.8
Enrolled in WIC              
No 8,280** 23.2 19.8 - 26.9 76.9 73.1 - 80.2
Yes 4,914** 16.3 12.5 - 20.9 83.7 79.1 - 87.5
Enrolled in MaineCare/Medicaid            
No 7,176** 20.4 17.1 - 24.2 79.6 75.9 - 83.0
Yes 6,121** 20.8 16.8 - 25.4 79.2 74.7 - 83.2
Infant's birth weight              
<2500 grams 966 20.0 17.3 - 23.0 80.0 77.0 - 82.7
2500 grams or more 13,184 20.6 17.8 - 23.7 79.4 76.4 - 82.2
NOTES:
Population size for groups giving birth in Maine are taken from the Maine Vital Statistics System unless otherwise noted.
Unknowns are excluded from all tabulations.
* Survey Question: Variable developed from Q66. At any time during your prenatal care, did a doctor, nurse, or other health 
care worker talk with you about how eating fish containing high levels of mercury could affect your baby?
** Estimates of the population size for this group giving birth in Maine are made through PRAMS.
^ Estimate of Hispanic population giving birth in Maine is taken from the 2006 birth file.
# There were fewer than 10 survey respondents to this question.  Data may be unreliable for describing this group, therefore 
percent is not reported.
CI = 95% Confidence Interval