Table 1.

Selected Demographic Characteristics of 111,644 Women Who Reported Using or not Using Alcohol Before Pregnancy, PRAMS, 2004 to 2008

Characteristica	Number	Percent
Maternal age (years)
<19	8,536	6.4
20 to 29	59,256	52.7
≥ 30	43,852	40.9
Maternal education
High school or less	45,471	37.6
Some college or more	66,173	62.4
Maternal race/ethnicity
Black	17,421	12.7
Asian	6,146	2.7
Other (includes white, Hispanic)	95,445	84.6
Household income (dollars/y)
<35,000	55,772	44.9
35,000 to 49,999	12,265	10.9
≥ 50,000	43,607	44.2
Parity
0	50,576	44.4
1 to 2	51,574	48.0
≥ 3	9,494	7.6
Use multivitamin 1 month before pregnancy
No	61,594	53.7
Yes	50,050	46.3
Drink 3 months before pregnancyb
Never	22,171	17.9
≤ 3 drinks/wk	73,261	67.3
4 to 6 drinks/wk	9,845	9.2
7 to 13 drinks/wk	4,186	3.8
≥ 14 drinks/wk	2,181	1.7
Binge drink (5 or more drinks/sitting) 3 months before pregnancyc
Never drink or binge	78,677	70.1
1 time	11,617	10.9
2 to 3 times	13,373	12.3
4 to 5 times	3,770	3.4
≥ 6 times	3,773	3.3

PRAMS, Pregnancy Risk Assessment and Monitoring System.

^aNumbers are unweighted, percents are weighted.

^bn = 111,644.

^cn = 111,210.