Table 1.

Demographics and mode of birth of women giving birth in NSW between 2000-2008

	All women
No of births	510,006
Age of women at delivery (Mean and SD)	29.7 (5.55)
% Primiparous	40.6%
Place of birth
Hospital	94.5%
Birth Centre	3.30%
Planned Birth Centre transferred to hospital	1.30%
Planned Home Birth	0.20%
Planned Home Birth transferred to Hospital	0.01%
Born Before Arrival	0.60%
Type of Birth
Normal Vaginal Delivery	85.3%
Forceps	4.8%
Ventouse	9.4%
Vaginal Breech	0.6%
Country of Birth of Mother
Australia	71.6%
New Zealand	2.6%
England	2.2%
Vietnam	2.2%
China	2.1%
Lebanon	2.1%
Other	17.2%