Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics of Infants Included in the Database Analysis (FC), compared to the Full Received Cohort (FRC) and the census data for the State of Colorado, 2000.
| Characteristic | Final Cohort (n=1978) |
Full Received Cohort (n=3727) |
Colorado 2000* (n=65,429) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | (%) | (%) | |
| Sex: | ||||
| Male | 1036 | 52.4 | 51.8 | 51.2 |
| Female | 942 | 47.6 | 48.2 | 48.8 |
| Race: | ||||
| Asian or Pacific Islander | 105 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 107 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 4.6 |
| Hispanic | 314 | 15.9 | 16.1 | 27.2 |
| Non-Hispanic White | 1281 | 64.8 | 65.5 | 63.9 |
| Unknown | 171 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 0 |
| Maternal age: | ||||
| Young (<20) | 83 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 7.5 |
| Mid (≥ 20, ≤35) | 1512 | 76.44 | 76.2 | 74.2 |
| Older (>35) | 383 | 19.36 | 18.9 | 18.3 |
| Parity | ||||
| 0 | 864 | 43.7 | 40.0 | 42.1 |
| 1 | 719 | 36.3 | 37.0 | 32.7 |
| 2 | 269 | 13.6 | 16.0 | 15.9 |
| 3 | 93 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 6.1 |
| >3 | 33 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 3.3 |
| Singleton | 1960 | 99.1 | 99.0 | 97.0 |
| Twin | 18 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| Delivery method: | ||||
| C-section | 339 | 17.1 | 16.8 | 18.3 |
| Vaginal | 1639 | 82.9 | 83.2 | 81.7 |