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Table 2. Overall CS rate (%) 518/2545 - 20.3%.

Robson 's10-group classification No. of CS over total no. of women in each group Relative size of group
(%)
CS rate in each group
(%)
Contribution made by each group to overall CS rate of 20.3%
Nulliparous, single cephalic, >37 wks in spontaneous labor 96/737 28.9(737/2545) 13(96/737) 3.77(96/2545)
Nulliparous, single cephalic, >37 wks, induced or CS before labor 47/58 2.2(58/2545) 8.1(47/58) 1.84(47/2545)
Multiparous (excluding previous CS), single cephalic, >37 wks in spontaneous labor 33/1236 48.5(1236/2545) 2.6(33/1236) 1.29(33/2545)
Multiparous (excluding prev CS), single cephalic >37 wks, induced or CS before labour 33/54 2.1(54/2545) 61(33/54) 1.29(33/2545)
Previos CS, single cephalic, >37 wks 173/297 11.6(297/2545) 58.2(173/297) 6.79(173/2545)
All nulliparous breeches 30/33 1.2(30/33) 90.9(30/33) 1.17(30/2545)
All multiparous breeches (including previous CS) 37/41 1.6(33/2545) 90.2(37/41) 1.45(37/2545)
All multiple pregnancies (including previous CS) 26/37 1.4(37/2545) 70.2(26/37) 1.02(26/2545)
All abnormal lies (including previous CS) 5/5 1.1(5/2545) 100(5/5) 0.19(5/2545)
All single cephalic, <36 wks (including previous CS) 38/47 1.8(47/2545) 80.8(38/47) 1.49(38/2545)