Table 3. Characteristics of neonatal near miss cases as for biological and birth variables according to health service system: public and private. Recife. 2012.

		Public		Private		Total		p-value*
		n	%	n	%	n	%
Total		1.887		211		2.098
Sex**	Female	928	49.2	107	50.7	1.035	49.3	0.82
	Male	957	50.8	104	49.3	1.061	50.7
Delivery***	Vaginal	881	46.8	14	6.7	895	42.7	<0.001
	C-section	1.003	53.2	196	93.3	1.199	57.3
Duration of gestation****	<33 weeks	1.346	71.5	149	71.3	1.495	71.5	0.30
	≥33 weeks	536	28.5	60	28.7	596	28.5
Birth weight	<1.750 g	1.609	85.3	176	83.4	1.785	85.1	0.54
	≥1.750 g	278	14.7	35	16.6	313	14.9
5th-minute Apgar*****	<7	286	15.4	30	14.2	316	15.3	0.55
	≥7	1.575	84.6	181	85.8	1.756	84.7

*Pearson’s χ² test; **two cases of the public segment whose information about the variable sex was ignored were excluded from the analysis; ***three cases of the public system were excluded from the analysis. and one case of the private system whose variable information was ignored; ****Five cases were excluded from the analysis in the public segment and two cases in the private segment. whose variable information was ignored; *****26 cases were excluded from the analysis in the public segment, as the information about this variable was ignored.