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                            Was Mother On WIC During Pregnancy?*    
                                                     2000 Maine Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
        No       Yes    
Groups   Population %   CI   %   CI  
  Total 13,590 66.9 63.8 - 70.1 33.1 29.9 - 36.2
Age                    
<20 years 1,272 27.4 17.3 - 37.6 72.6 62.4 - 82.7
20-24 years 3,351 40.0 33.3 - 46.6 60.0 53.4 - 66.7
25-34 years 7,088 80.6 77.0 - 84.2 19.4 15.8 - 23.0
35+ years 1,875 88.5 82.9 - 94.1 11.5 5.9 - 17.1
Mother's Race                  
White 13,144 68.0 64.8 - 71.1 32.0 28.9 - 35.2
Black 112 # # - # # # - #
Other 308 31.7 11.5 - 51.8 68.4 48.2 - 88.5
Hispanic Origin                  
Yes 138^ # # - # # # - #
No 13,441^ 67.3 64.1 - 70.4 32.7 29.6 - 35.9
Education                  
< High School 1,471 30.2 20.5 - 39.8 69.8 60.2 - 79.5
High School 4,894 54.3 48.8 - 59.8 45.7 40.2 - 51.2
> High School 7,065 85.2 82.0 - 88.4 14.8 11.6 - 18.0
Marital Status                  
Married 9,398 81.2 78.1 - 84.3 18.8 15.7 - 21.9
Other 4,192 33.6 27.8 - 39.5 66.4 60.5 - 72.2
Income                    
$15,999 or less 3,654** 28.2 22.4 - 34.0 71.8 66.0 - 77.6
$16,000-24,999 1,459** 51.1 41.3 - 60.9 48.9 39.1 - 58.7
$25,000-39,999 2,620** 74.6 68.2 - 81.0 25.4 19.0 - 31.8
$40,000 or more 4,811** 96.6 94.5 - 98.6 3.4 1.4 - 5.5
WIC Recipient                  
No 8,652** 100.0 100.0 - 100.0 0.0 0.0 - 0.0
Yes 4,275** 0.0 0.0 - 0.0 100.0 100.0 - 100.0
Medicaid Recipient                  
No 8,054** 91.7 89.4 - 94.0 8.3 6.0 - 10.6
Yes 4,998** 27.2 22.3 - 32.1 72.8 67.9 - 77.7
Infant's birth weight                  
<2500 grams 819 60.0 56.6 - 63.4 40.0 36.6 - 43.4
2500 grams or more 12,761 67.3 64.0 - 70.6 32.7 29.4 - 36.0
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 23:  During your pregnancy, were you on WIC?
** 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