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Was Infant in Intensive Care Unit at Birth?*    
1999 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
        No       Yes    
Groups   Population %   CI   %   CI  
  Total 13,604 93.3 92.1 - 94.6 6.7 5.4 - 7.9
Age                    
<20 years 1,322 94.3 91.1 - 97.6 5.7 2.4 - 8.9
20-24 years 3,313 91.7 88.7 - 94.8 8.3 5.2 - 11.3
25-34 years 7,236 93.9 92.3 - 95.5 6.1 4.5 - 7.7
35+ years 1,733 93.0 89.3 - 96.7 7.0 3.3 - 10.7
Mother's Race                  
White 13,198 93.2 91.9 - 94.5 6.8 5.5 - 8.1
Black 105 # # - # # # - #
Other 270 98.4 96.7 - 100.0 1.6 0.0 - 3.3
Hispanic Origin                  
Yes 134^ # # - # # # - #
No 12,771^ 93.1 91.8 - 94.4 6.9 5.6 - 8.2
Education                  
< High School 1,474 90.3 85.4 - 95.2 9.7 4.8 - 14.6
High School 5,093 93.1 91.0 - 95.1 6.9 4.9 - 9.0
>High School 6,936 94.2 92.6 - 95.8 5.8 4.2 - 7.4
Marital Status                  
Married 9,354 94.3 92.9 - 95.7 5.7 4.3 - 7.1
Other 4,250 91.0 88.4 - 93.7 9.0 6.3 - 11.6
Income                    
$15,999 or less 3,593** 89.8 86.7 - 93.0 10.2 7.0 - 13.3
$16,000-24,999 1,786** 95.6 93.7 - 97.5 4.4 2.5 - 6.3
$25,000-39,999 2,670** 94.4 91.9 - 96.9 5.6 3.1 - 8.1
$40,000 or more 4,684** 94.4 92.4 - 96.4 5.6 3.6 - 7.6
WIC Recipient                  
No 8,842** 94.5 93.1 - 95.8 5.5 4.2 - 6.9
Yes 4,153** 90.7 88.0 - 93.5 9.3 6.5 - 12.0
Medicaid Recipient                  
No 8,545** 94.6 93.1 - 96.0 5.4 4.0 - 6.9
Yes 4,476** 90.9 88.4 - 93.4 9.1 6.6 - 11.6
Infant's birth weight                  
<2500 grams 822 45.0 41.6 - 48.4 55.0 51.6 - 58.4
2500 grams or more 12,776 96.0 94.7 - 97.3 4.0 2.7 - 5.3
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 39: When your baby was born, was he or she put in an intensive care unit?
** 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