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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2022 Jul 11;10(4):1721–1734. doi: 10.1007/s40615-022-01356-w

Table 1.

Characteristics of PRAMS respondents, 2018-2019, stratified by race/ethnicity (Alaska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Washington)

American
Indian/Alaska
Native
non-
Hispanic
White
Non-
Hispanic
Black
Hispanic
(n=3,068) (n=6,287) (n=1,559) (n=2,458) p-value
Age <0.0001
<19 years old 10.3 3.7 5.9 5.8
20-24 years 27.4 17.4 23.5 24.9
25-29 years 32 31 29.8 29.7
30-34 years 20.6 31.7 23.7 23.9
35 years and older 9.8 16.3 17.2 15.7
Education <0.0001
Less than high school 22.7 7.6 14.2 34.1
High school graduate 38.4 21.7 30.3 29.4
Some college 30.4 32.7 32.7 25.2
College or more 8.5 38.1 38.1 11.3
Marital status <0.0001
Married 32.9 70.6 46.5 53.9
Not married 67.1 29.4 53.5 46.1
Parity <0.0001
0 31.1 39.2 35.5 30.9
1-2 45.7 49.5 46.4 51.1
3 or more 23.2 11.3 18.1 18.1
% of Federal Poverty Level <0.0001
0-99% FPL 61.7 24.9 47 52.5
100-199% FPL 23.2 22.4 30.9 30.1
200% or more FPL 15.1 52.7 22.1 17.4
Received WIC during pregnancy <0.0001
Yes 61.1 30 55.8 64.6
No 38.9 70 44.2 35.4
Residence <0.0001
Rural 53.8 20.9 7.6 17.8
Urban 46.2 79.1 92.4 82.2
State <0.0001
Alaska 19.4 5.9 2.7 3
New Mexico 26.7 15.9 6.7 11.4
Oklahoma 30.5 20.3 37.6 19.7
South Dakota 10.0 5.8 3.6 1.5
Washington 13.5 52.2 49.3 64.4
Outcomes
Had gestational diabetes in most recent pregnancy 12.2 8.5 8.6 12.3 <0.0001
Initiated breastfeeding 85.0 93.1 87.7 92.1 <0.0001
Currently breastfeeding 51.4 68.6 57 58.9 <0.0001