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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2014 Nov;18(9):2179–2187. doi: 10.1007/s10995-014-1466-3

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of respondents (2006-2010), count and weighted percent

No incarceration in 12
months before birth
Self or partner
incarcerated in 12
months before birth
P value
n= 175,394 (95.4%) n=9130 (4.6%)
Age p<.0001
<=19 17,243 (9.2%) 1918 (22.6%)
20-24 40,628 (22.6%) 3611 (40%)
25-29 49,452 (29.1%) 2101 (23%)
30-34 40,318 (24.4%) 954 (9.5%)
>=35 27,748 (14.7%) 545 (4.9%)
Race/ethnicity p<.0001
Black 27,944 (13.9%) 2665 (29%)
Hispanic 25,449 (16.7%) 1030 (13.2%)
White 97,243 (62.2%) 4185 (51.8%)
Other 24,758 (7.2%) 1250 (6%)
Education p<.0001
8th grade or below 6648 (4.4%) 280 (3.5%)
Grade 9-11 22,439 (12.4%) 2477 (28.1%)
HS degree 49,770 (27.3%) 3781 (41%)
Some college 43,725 (24.5%) 2196 (22.9%)
College degree 52,812 (31.5%) 396 (4.6%)
Married 110,603 (63.9%) 2022 (20.1%) p<.0001
Previous births 18,619 (10.2%) 1383 (13.1%) p<.0001
Other stresses in 12 months
before birth
Divorce/separation 13,276 (7%) 3061 (31.9%) p<.0001
Moved 60,239 (33%) 5531 (59.8%) p<.0001
Homeless 5265 (3%) 1572 (15.3%) p<.0001
Partner lost job 20,923 (12.1%) 3003 (32.8%) p<.0001
Lost own job 16,909 (9.4%) 2331 (24.5%) p<.0001
Argued with partner more
than usual
42,734 (23.4%) 5586 (59.7%) p<.0001
Partner didn’t want pregnancy 13,491 (7.5%) 1996 (21.1%) p<.0001
Couldn’t pay bills 38,735 (21.1%) 4687 (50.6%) p<.0001
Physical fight 5519 (2.8%) 2487 (25.7%) p<.0001
Someone close had substance
problem
20,117 (10.5%) 4641 (49%) p<.0001
Someone close hospitalized 40,750 (22.9%) 3114 (34.3%) p<.0001
Someone close died 30,707 (16.6%) 2735 (28.2%) p<.0001
Total number of stresses aside
from incarceration
p<.0001
0 58,831 (35%) 333 (4.1%)
1-2 76,610 (43.6%) 2123 (24.9%)
3-5 34,518 (18.7%) 4200 (46%)
6-11 5435 (2.8%) 2474 (25%)