Table III.
Preterm birth rates according to birth year and Indigenous status, singleton live births, Québec, 1981–2008a
| 1981–1989 | 1990–1999 | 2000–2008 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (95% CI) | n | N | % (95% CI) | n | N | % (95% CI) | n | N | |
| Language by type of area | |||||||||
| Rest of Québec | |||||||||
| French/Englishb | 5.3 (5.2–5.4) | 36,974 | 698,310 | 6.0 (6.0–6.1) | 43,664 | 727,649 | 6.2 (6.2–6.3) | 34,708 | 556,802 |
| Inuit | 12.8 (8.8–16.9) | 34 | 265 | 12.1 (7.1–17.1) | 20 | 165 | 13.3 (6.0–20.6) | 11 | 83 |
| First Nationsb | 5.3 (4.3–6.4) | 92 | 1,723 | 5.3 (4.2–6.4) | 79 | 1,488 | 9.6 (7.3–11.9) | 60 | 625 |
| Inuit-inhabited | |||||||||
| French/English | 14.7 (8.2–21.1) | 17 | 116 | 12.6 (8.0–17.2) | 25 | 199 | 12.1 (8.7–15.4) | 44 | 365 |
| Inuit | 10.2 (7.9–12.9) | 59 | 578 | 9.5 (8.3–10.7) | 213 | 2,243 | 9.2 (8.0–10.5) | 187 | 2,030 |
| First Nations-inhabited | |||||||||
| French/English | 6.0 (5.0–7.0) | 124 | 2,063 | 7.4 (6.4–8.3) | 211 | 2,871 | 6.7 (5.9–7.4) | 269 | 4,028 |
| First Nationsb | 4.6 (3.9–5.3) | 153 | 3,348 | 5.7 (5.0–6.3) | 252 | 4,455 | 7.5 (6.6–8.3) | 289 | 3,875 |
CI, confidence interval.
a
Results for “other” language category available upon request.
b
Cochran-Armitage test for trend over time, p<0.0001.