Table 1.
Descriptive statistics.
| Never FHS |
FHS target pre intervention |
2-Sample equal means test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample: | 18,969 | Sample | 2764 | |||
| N | % | N | % | F-stat | p-Value | |
| Low birth weight | 1376 | (7.26) | 199 | (7.20) | 0.01 | 0.92 |
| Preterm | 1362 | (7.18) | 195 | (7.05) | 0.11 | 0.74 |
| Short for gestational age | 1444 | (7.61) | 204 | (7.38) | 0.51 | 0.49 |
| Stillbirths | 125 | (0.66) | 14 | (0.51) | 1.79 | 0.20 |
| Neonatal deaths | 92 | (0.49) | 14 | (0.51) | 0.03 | 0.87 |
| Post-neonatal deaths | 57 | (0.30) | 15 | (0.55) | 2.50 | 0.13 |
| Cesarian delivery | 6176 | (32.57) | 806 | (29.17) | 12.07 | 0.00 |
| Age under 15 | 122 | (0.64) | 24 | (0.87) | 0.61 | 0.44 |
| Age 15–19 | 3517 | (18.54) | 592 | (21.42) | 11.33 | 0.00 |
| Age 20–34 | 13,108 | (69.10) | 1876 | (67.87) | 3.32 | 0.09 |
| Age 35–39 | 1455 | (7.67) | 180 | (6.51) | 2.73 | 0.12 |
| Age 40 plus | 218 | (1.15) | 34 | (1.23) | 0.15 | 0.70 |
Notes: a) Standard errors are adjusted for clustering at the primary health care unit level. Table covers all hospital births from the Butantã–Jaguaré area over the period 2003–2012 in areas not covered by FHS.