Table 5.
Maternal Demographic, Employment, Pregnancy, and Breastfeeding Characteristics by Industry.
| Characteristic | Industry (n = 373) | p-Value 1 Sig.2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accommodation | Healthcare | Retail | Other | ||||
| (n = 87) | (n = 94) | (n = 65) | (n = 127) | ||||
| Demographics | Age (years) | 15 to 17 | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.023 * |
| 18 to 34 | 77.0% (n = 67) | 74.5% (n = 70) | 84.6% (n = 55) | 73.2% (n = 93) | |||
| 35 and over | 6.9% (n = 6) | 20.2% (n = 19) | 9.2% (n = 6) | 17.3% (n = 22) | |||
| Not Reported | 16.1% (n = 14) | 5.3% (n = 5) | 6.2% (n = 4) | 9.4% (n = 12) | |||
| Race/Ethnicity | Other | 17.2% (n = 15) | 10.6% (n = 10) | 6.2% (n = 4) | 14.2% (n = 18) | 0.191 | |
| Non-Hispanic White | 82.8% (n = 72) | 88.3% (n = 83) | 93.8% (n = 61) | 85.8% (n = 109) | |||
| Not Reported | 0.0% (n = 0) | 1.1% (n = 1) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | |||
| Employment | Status | Full time | 48.3% (n = 42) | 46.8% (n = 44) | 33.8% (n = 22) | 39.4% (n = 50) | 0.017 * |
| Part time | 41.4% (n = 36) | 34.0% (n = 32) | 60.0% (n = 39) | 42.5% (n = 54) | |||
| Other | 10.3% (n = 9) | 19.1% (n = 18) | 6.2% (n = 4) | 18.1% (n = 23) | |||
| Not Reported | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | |||
| During Pregnancy | Hoping to Feed | Combination | 31.0% (n = 27) | 34.0% (n = 32) | 30.8% (n = 20) | 26.8% (n = 34) | 0.029 ^ |
| Breastfeeding only | 42.5% (n = 37) | 53.2% (n = 50) | 49.2% (n = 32) | 63.0% (n = 80) | |||
| Formula only | 24.1% (n = 21) | 9.6% (n = 9) | 15.4% (n = 10) | 7.1% (n = 9) | |||
| Not Reported | 2.3% (n = 2) | 3.2% (n = 3) | 4.6% (n = 3) | 3.1% (n = 4) | |||
| Received Information | Yes | 90.8% (n = 79) | 100.0% (n = 94) | 96.9% (n = 63) | 94.5% (n = 120) | 0.017 * | |
| No | 9.2% (n = 8) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 3.1% (n = 2) | 4.7% (n = 6) | |||
| Not Reported | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.0% (n = 0) | 0.8% (n = 1) | |||
| Reason for Stopping Breastfeeding | Physiological | Yes | 63.9% (n = 39) | 73.9% (n = 51) | 58.3% (n = 28) | 60.7% (n = 54) | 0.249 |
| No | 36.1% (n = 22) | 26.1% (n = 18) | 41.7% (n = 20) | 39.3% (n = 35) | |||
| Other Commitments | Yes | 26.2% (n = 16) | 14.5% (n = 10) | 12.5% (n = 6) | 28.1% (n = 25) | 0.059 | |
| No | 73.8% (n = 45) | 85.5% (n = 59) | 87.5% (n = 42) | 71.9% (n = 64) | |||
| Met Goal | Yes | 6.6% (n = 4) | 10.1% (n = 7) | 14.6% (n = 7) | 16.9% (n = 15) | 0.256 | |
| No | 93.4% (n = 57) | 89.9% (n = 62) | 85.4% (n = 41) | 83.1% (n = 74) | |||
1p-Value was based on Fisher’s exact tests or Fisher’s exact tests with Freeman and Halton’s adaptations for RxC tables. 2 Statistical significance (*) was based on an alpha of 0.05 with Bonferroni correction based on the number of comparisons within each category or domain (with no correction for demographic variables). A Monte Carlo estimation with 10,000,000 samples was used to calculate Fisher–Freeman–Halton statistics for tables with industry. Estimates were considered marginally significant (^) if they met the alpha criteria of 0.05 but were no longer significant after Bonferroni correction.