Table 2.

Odds Ratios (95% Confidence intervals) of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) or Low Birth Weight (LBW) for African-American, Latino and White mothers, adjusted for individual-level characteristics: Wisconsin, 1998–1999¹

Variable	African-American		Latino		White
	VLBW	LBW	VLBW	LBW	VLBW	LBW
Cigarette use
(yes = 1)	1.42 (.95–2.13)	2.03 (1.69–2.43)	2.00 (.88–4.56)	1.93 (1.29–2.88)	2.05 (1.63–2.57)	2.02 (1.83–2.24)
Age
(<20 = 1)	1.26 (.85–1.88)	1.20 (.99–1.45)	1.09 (.53–2.22)	1.28 (.91–1.81)	1.00 (.72–1.36)	.94 (.81–1.09)
Marital status
(unmar = 1)	1.19 (.73–1.93)	.15 (.89–1.48)	.44 (.23–.82)	.86 (.63–1.16)	1.79 (1.42–2.25)	1.34 (1.20–1.49)
Education
(<HS =1)	.74 (.45–1.24)	1.11 (.87–1.42)	1.49 (.61–3.62)	1.00 (.67–1.50)	1.22 (.88–1.70)	1.17 (1.01–1.36)
(HS grad = 2)	.98 (.62–1.55)	.87 (.69–1.10)	1.27 (.50–3.19)	.75 (.48–1.16)	1.29 (1.04–1.60)	1.12 (1.02–1.24)
Prenatal care
(inadeq = 1)	.44 (.26–.75)	.87 (.67–1.12)	4.85 (1.34–17.5)	.63 (.41–1.00)	.73 (.43–1.23)	1.23 (1.00–1.53)
(intermed = 2)	.74 (.51–1.08)	.97 (.81–1.16)	5.84 (1.55–22.0)	.89 (.56–1.41)	1.15 (.91–1.44)	1.27 (1.14–1.41)
Gestation
(<37 wks = 1)	32.0 (13.0–79.0)	51.9 (42.0–64.0)	63.1 (27.0–88.0)	54.8 (39.5–76.1)	75.6 (61.5–89.1)	70.2 (63.7–77.4)

Source: 1998 & 1999 Wisconsin Birth Record Files of the Vital Statistics and 1990 U.S. Census STF 3A data.

¹See footnotes in Table 1 for variable definitions.