Table 3.

Planned and actual place of birth in relation to parity

	primary care			secondary care
	at home	birth centre	hospital with own midwife	hospital with gynecologist	don't know yet/no answer/elsewhere
All pregnant women (n = 793)**
Where are you planning to give birth?	38.7%	1.2%	26.5%	24.0%	9.7%
nulliparae (n = 348)	37.6%	2.0%	31.6%	18.1%	10.6%
parae (n = 428)	39.5%	0.5%	22.4%	28.7%	8.9%
All postpartum women (n = 632)***
Where did you give birth?	30.6%	0.6%	15.0%	49.6%	4.2%
primiparae (n = 280)	16.4%	0.7%	15.7%	61.1%	6.1%
multiparae (n = 341)	42.2%	0.6%	14.4%	40.2%	2.6%

** Chi Square = 19.88 p < 0.01 *** Chi Square 51.54 p < 0.001