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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 Mar 13;63(7):546–551. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.080598

Table 1.

Characteristics of births to Inuit residents in the Hudson Bay communities where midwives were the primary birthing attendants, and the Ungava Bay communities where physicians were the primary birthing attendants, Nunavik, 1989–2000

Hudson Bay Ungava Bay p Value*
All births, N 1529 1197
Infant sex, male % 53.1 50.7 0.21
Multiple birth, % 1.4 1.8 0.51
Mothers primiparous, % 36.0 29.7 0.0006
Maternal age (years), % 0.18
 <20 26.6 24.0
 20–34 69.2 72.4
 ≥35 4.3 3.6
Marital status, % 0.05
 Single 39.1 43.1
 Common law union 41.0 36.6
 Married 19.9 20.3
Maternal education, % 0.17
 <11 years 61.5 64.6
 11 years (completed high school) 15.8 16.1
 ≥12 years (some college or higher) 22.7 19.3
*

p Values in χ2 tests for differences between the two sets of communities.