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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2017 Jul 18;179:159–166. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.06.021

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of U.S. pregnant women age 12+, overall and by the presence of past-year MDE, National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2005–2014

Characteristic Overall (N=8721) With MDE (N=699; 6.7%)* Without MDE (N=7950; 93.3%)* p-value**
% (s.e.) % (s.e.) % (s.e.)
Age <0.0001
12–17 3.3 (0.2) 7.1 (1.2) 3.0 (0.2)
18–25 36.8 (0.8) 44.2 (2.6) 36.3 (0.8)
26–34 47.1 (1.0) 38.5 (3.0) 47.9 (1.0)
35+ 12.8 (0.6) 10.3 (2.4) 12.8 (0.6)
Marital status <0.0001
Married 59.8 (0.9) 44.7 (2.9) 61.0 (1.0)
Widowed/divorced/separated 6.2 (0.4) 9.4 (1.5) 5.8 (0.5)
Never married 34.1 (0.9) 46.0 (2.8) 33.1 (0.9)
Education     0.0009
<High school 19.3 (0.5) 23.7 (2.1) 18.7 (0.6)
High school graduate 25.9 (0.7) 29.0 (2.4) 25.8 (0.8)
Some college 24.2 (0.8) 26.7 (2.5) 24.2 (0.8)
College graduate or above 30.6 (1.0) 20.6 (2.8) 31.4 (1.0)
Income     0.0632
<=$20,000 23.9 (0.7) 29.7 (2.7) 23.4 (0.7)
$20–49,999 31.7 (0.8) 31.6 (2.4) 31.7 (0.9)
$50–74,999 17.0 (0.6) 17.1 (2.5) 17.1 (0.6)
>=$75,000 27.4 (0.9) 21.6 (2.8) 27.9 (0.9)
Race     0.0015
White 57.7 (0.9) 68.9 (2.9) 57.0 (1.0)
Black 14.5 (0.6) 11.8 (1.8) 14.7 (0.7)
Hispanic 19.7 (0.7) 15.0 (2.1) 19.9 (0.8)
Other 8.1 (0.5) 4.3 (0.9) 8.3 (0.6)
Respondent has other children age <18 in the home     0.0034
No 41.3 (0.9) 49.3 (2.8) 40.7 (0.9)
Yes 58.7 (0.9) 50.7 (2.8) 59.4 (0.9)
*

Unweighted N’s and population weighted percentages.

**

from chi-square tests for differences in characteristic distributions between women with and without past-year MDE.