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Was Prenatal Care Paid by Health Insurance?*  
1999 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
        No       Yes    
Groups   Population %   CI   %   CI  
  Total 13,604 36.1 33.0 - 39.1 63.9 60.9 - 67.0
Age                    
<20 years 1,322 73.2 64.1 - 82.3 26.8 17.7 - 35.9
20-24 years 3,313 59.1 52.6 - 65.5 40.9 34.5 - 47.4
25-34 years 7,236 23.5 19.7 - 27.2 76.6 72.8 - 80.3
35+ years 1,733 17.0 10.3 - 23.7 83.0 76.3 - 89.7
Mother's Race                  
White 13,198 35.4 32.3 - 38.5 64.6 61.5 - 67.7
Black 105 # # - # # # - #
Other 270 51.3 26.3 - 76.3 48.7 23.7 - 73.7
Hispanic Origin                  
Yes 134^ # # - # # # - #
No 12,771^ 34.5 31.3 - 37.6 65.5 62.4 - 68.7
Education                  
< High School 1,474 79.2 71.3 - 87.0 20.8 13.0 - 28.7
High School 5,093 49.0 43.7 - 54.2 51.0 45.8 - 56.3
>High School 6,936 16.2 12.9 - 19.5 83.8 80.5 - 87.1
Marital Status                  
Married 9,354 20.9 17.8 - 24.0 79.1 76.0 - 82.2
Other 4,250 69.7 64.4 - 75.0 30.3 25.0 - 35.6
Income                    
$15,999 or less 3,593** 81.1 76.3 - 85.8 18.9 14.2 - 23.7
$16,000-24,999 1,786** 46.1 37.4 - 54.7 53.9 45.3 - 62.6
$25,000-39,999 2,670** 20.1 14.4 - 25.8 79.9 74.2 - 85.6
$40,000 or more 4,684** 6.2 3.6 - 8.8 93.8 91.2 - 96.4
WIC Recipient                  
No 8,842** 18.6 15.6 - 21.6 81.4 78.4 - 84.4
Yes 4,153** 73.3 68.3 - 78.4 26.7 21.6 - 31.7
Medicaid Recipient                  
No 8,545** 9.0 6.7 - 11.3 91.0 88.7 - 93.3
Yes 4,476** 88.2 84.7 - 91.7 11.8 8.3 - 15.3
Infant's birth weight                  
<2500 grams 822 45.6 42.1 - 49.0 54.4 51.0 - 57.9
2500 grams or more 12,776 35.5 32.3 - 38.7 64.5 61.3 - 67.7
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 15: How was your prenatal care paid for? Health Insurance
** 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