Table 4.
Characteristics of the communities with a high proportion of large for gestational age births
| Characteristics | Postal areaa | Othersb (n = 25) |
P-valuec | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2486 | 4127 | 4128 | 4129 | 4207 | 4209 | 4213 | 4223 | 4280 | |||
| Population density (person/km2) | 242 (11) |
727 (16) |
1357 (23) |
659 (15) |
125 (6) |
196 (9) |
109 (5) |
318 (12) |
92 (3) |
1109 (21) |
0.026 |
| Indigenous persons |
3.1% (31) |
1.6% (21) |
0.7% (4) |
1.6% (20) |
2.6% (28) |
1.8% (22) |
1.1% (12) |
1.6% (19) |
1.8% (23) |
1.3% (15) |
0.391 |
| Other language spoken (home) | 3.2% (3) |
11% (25) |
7.9% (19) |
6.5% (16) |
5.8% (11) |
5.5% (10) |
6.1% (12) |
3.4% (4) |
3.6% (5) |
9.3% (21) |
0.042 |
| Family income ($/week) | 921 (3) |
1212 (27) |
1412 (34) |
1229 (29) |
1107 (15) |
1210 (26) |
1181 (24) |
1110 (16) |
1198 (25) |
1095 (13.5) |
0.110 |
| Household size (person) | 2.4 (9.5) |
2.7 (17) |
3.0 (29) |
2.9 (25) |
2.7 (17) |
3.0 (29) |
3.0 (29) |
2.5 (11) |
3.2 (34) |
2.7 (17) |
0.105 |
| Married persons | 54% (28) |
48% (15) |
55% (29) |
52% (23) |
48% (14) |
50% (18) |
56% (31) |
50% (21) |
58% (32) |
47% (13) |
0.039 |
| Volunteer | 15% (27) |
15% (28) |
16% (29) |
14% (18) |
14% (23) |
13% (11) |
18% (33) |
15% (26) |
15% (24) |
13% (14) |
0.017 |
| Unpaid domestic work (> 5 hours - females) | 73% (28) |
69% (20) |
71% (25) |
72% (26) |
71% (24) |
76% (33) |
71% (23) |
64% (13) |
77% (34) |
65% (14) |
0.008 |
| Age 20-39 ever born | 66% (27) |
55% (13) |
58% (17) |
59% (18) |
66% (28) |
65% (26) |
63% (23) |
57% (16) |
73% (34) |
55% (14) |
0.086 |
| One-parent family with children < 15 | 9.4% (17) |
11% (26) |
7.5% (5) |
11% (24) |
12% (27) |
12% (29) |
9.3% (15) |
9.3% (16) |
8.0% (6) |
9.6% (18) |
0.785 |
| Labour force participation |
48% (2) |
68% (28) |
74% (34) |
70% (31) |
62% (17) |
72% (33) |
67% (25) |
59% (12) |
67% (26) |
61% (15) |
0.051 |
| Migrant lived at different address 1 year ago |
16% (3) |
17% (11) |
16% (6) |
17% (8) |
17% (12) |
38% (34) |
17% (9) |
16% (5) |
15% (1) |
20% (21) |
0.008 |
aValues in parentheses are the rankings am ong the total of 34 communities.
bMedian values (ranks) are presented among the 25 other communities.
cMann-Whitney test for comparing medians between the nine communities and the others.