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                                            Infant in ICU?*            
                                                                   2000 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
        No       Yes    
Demographic Groups Population % 95% CI % 95% CI
  Total 13,590 90.6 88.9 - 92.3 9.4 7.7 - 11.1
Age                    
<20 years 1,272 86.7 79.8 - 93.5 13.3 6.5 - 20.2
20-24 years 3,351 88.9 84.9 - 92.8 11.1 7.2 - 15.1
25-34 years 7,088 92.6 90.6 - 94.5 7.4 5.5 - 9.4
35+ years 1,875 88.5 83.6 - 93.4 11.5 6.6 - 16.4
Mother's Race                  
White 13,144 90.9 89.2 - 92.5 9.1 7.5 - 10.8
Black 122 # # - # # # - #
Other 308 81.4 63.5 - 99.2 18.7 0.8 - 36.5
Hispanic Origin                  
Yes 138^ # # - # # # - #
No 13,441^ 90.9 89.3 - 92.5 9.1 7.5 - 10.7
Education                  
< High School 1,471 86.2 79.5 - 92.8 13.8 7.2 - 20.5
High School 4,894 90.5 87.7 - 93.3 9.5 6.7 - 12.3
> High School 7,065 91.7 89.7 - 93.7 8.3 6.3 - 10.3
Marital Status                  
Married 9,398 91.0 89.1 - 93.0 9.0 7.0 - 10.9
Other 4,192 89.7 86.4 - 92.9 10.3 7.1 - 13.6
Income                    
$15,999 or less 3,654** 88.4 84.6 - 92.2 11.6 7.8 - 15.4
$16,000-24,999 1,459** 90.2 85.4 - 95.0 9.8 5.0 - 14.6
$25,000-39,999 2,620** 89.8 85.9 - 93.7 10.2 6.3 - 14.1
$40,000 or more 4,811** 92.6 90.4 - 94.9 7.4 5.1 - 9.6
WIC Recipient                  
No 8,652** 92.9 91.3 - 94.5 7.1 5.5 - 8.7
Yes 4,275** 86.1 82.3 - 89.9 13.9 10.1 - 17.7
Medicaid Recipient                  
No 8,054** 92.6 90.9 - 94.4 7.4 5.6 - 9.1
Yes 4,998** 87.3 84.0 - 90.6 12.7 9.4 - 16.0
Infant's birth weight                  
<2500 grams 819 40.9 37.5 - 44.3 59.1 55.7 - 62.5
2500 grams or more 12,761 93.4 91.6 - 95.1 6.6 4.9 - 8.4
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 40: After 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 2000 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