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Was Mother Insured by Medicaid before Pregnancy?*  
1999 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
        No       Yes    
Groups   Population %   CI   %   CI  
  Total 13,604 86.2 83.9 - 88.4 13.9 11.6 - 16.1
Age                    
<20 years 1,322 50.5 40.3 - 60.8 49.5 39.2 - 59.7
20-24 years 3,313 78.6 73.2 - 83.9 21.5 16.1 - 26.8
25-34 years 7,236 93.7 91.6 - 95.8 6.3 4.2 - 8.4
35+ years 1,733 96.6 93.4 - 99.7 3.5 0.3 - 6.6
Mother's Race                  
White 13,198 86.5 84.3 - 88.7 13.5 11.3 - 15.7
Black 105 # # - # # # - #
Other 270 72.1 50.0 - 94.2 27.9 5.8 - 50.0
Hispanic Origin                  
Yes 134^ # # - # # # - #
No 12,771^ 86.7 84.5 - 89.0 13.3 11.0 - 15.5
Education                  
< High School 1,474 53.7 44.3 - 63.2 46.3 36.8 - 55.7
High School 5,093 82.0 78.0 - 86.1 18.0 13.9 - 22.0
>High School 6,936 96.8 95.2 - 98.3 3.3 1.7 - 4.8
Marital Status                  
Married 9,354 96.2 94.7 - 97.7 3.8 2.3 - 5.3
Other 4,250 64.1 58.7 - 69.6 35.9 30.4 - 41.3
Income                    
$15,999 or less 3,593** 60.7 54.8 - 66.7 39.3 33.3 - 45.2
$16,000-24,999 1,786** 90.3 85.2 - 95.5 9.7 4.5 - 14.8
$25,000-39,999 2,670** 95.7 92.8 - 98.6 4.3 1.4 - 7.2
$40,000 or more 4,684** 99.7 99.0 - 100.3 0.3 0.0 - 1.0
WIC Recipient                  
No 8,842** 95.5 93.9 - 97.1 4.5 2.9 - 6.1
Yes 4,153** 66.2 60.8 - 71.5 33.8 28.5 - 39.2
Medicaid Recipient                  
No 8,545** 100.0 100.0 - 100.0 0.0 0.0 - 0.0
Yes 4,476** 59.7 54.4 - 65.1 40.3 34.9 - 45.6
Infant's birth weight                  
<2500 grams 822 83.8 81.2 - 86.4 16.2 13.6 - 18.8
2500 grams or more 12,776 86.3 84.0 - 88.6 13.7 11.4 - 16.0
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 7: Just before you got pregnant, were you on Medicaid?
** 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 1999 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