Table 1.
Infant mortality for singleton births, by maternal corrections history and Indigenous status
| Indigenous infants | Non-Indigenous infants | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survived | Died | Survived | Died | |||||||||
| n | n | IMRa | RR | (95% CI) | p-value | n | n | IMRa | RR | (95% CI) | p-value | |
| Maternal corrections history | ||||||||||||
| Prison (before pregnancyb) | 2742 | 62 | 22.1 | 1.95 | (1.45–2.62) | <.001 | 634 | 6 | 9.4 | 2.25 | (0.97–5.22) | 0.059 |
| Prison (during pregnancy) | 753 | 25 | 32.1 | 2.84 | (1.87–4.31) | <.001 | 243 | < 5 | 8.2 | 1.96 | (0.48–8.00) | 0.349 |
| Prison (after birth only) | 3481 | 84 | 23.6 | 2.08 | (1.59–2.72) | <.001 | 2491 | 36 | 14.2 | 3.42 | (2.24–5.23) | <.001 |
| Community corrections | 5588 | 94 | 16.5 | 1.46 | (1.13–1.89) | 0.004 | 628 | 8 | 12.6 | 3.02 | (1.44–6.33) | 0.003 |
| No corrections* | 12,400 | 142 | 11.3 | 12,186 | 51 | 4.2 | ||||||
Note Excludes 591 Indigenous and 427 non-Indigenous multiples births
aInfant mortality rate: deaths under 12 months, per 1000 live births
bPrison before, but not during, pregnancy