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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2017 Aug;21(8):1616–1626. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-2251-2

Table 4.

Preterm birth, and Preterm Birth Subgroup, Status of Infants Born 2009–2011, by Intergenerational Socio-economic Neighborhood Context: an Intergenerational Study, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

High-high % black
N=698
Medium-medium % black
N=357
Low-low % black
N=3,558
Change to lower % black
N=852
Change to higher % black
N=1,127

Infant Characteristics n % n % n % n % n %
Preterm birth status
Term birth 621 88.97 323 90.48 3,311 93.06 770 90.38 1,026 91.04
Preterm birth 77 11.03 34 9.52 247 6.94 82 9.62 101 8.96
Preterm birth subgroups
Late preterm birth 58 8.31 29 8.12 213 5.99 60 7.04 77 6.83
Early preterm birth 19 2.72 5 1.40 34 0.96 22 2.58 24 2.13
High-high poverty
N=1,951
Low-low poverty
N=2,622
High-low poverty
N=1,594
Low-high poverty
N=425

Infant Characteristics n % n % n % n %
Preterm birth status
Term birth 1,759 90.16 2,436 92.91 1,466 91.97 390 91.76
Preterm birth 192 9.84 186 7.09 128 8.03 35 8.24
Preterm birth subgroups
Late preterm birth 133 6.82 165 6.29 108 6.78 31 7.29
Early preterm birth 59 3.02 21 0.80 20 1.25 4 0.94