Table 1.
Background characteristics (% (n)) of participants by maternal ethnicity (total sample size: 405)
| Danish origin (n=280) |
Non-Western descendant (n=34) |
Non-Western-born immigrant (n=55) |
Western-born immigrant (n=36) |
|
| Maternal age (years) | ||||
| Less than 25 | 6.8 (19) | 11.8 (4) | 10.9 (6) | † |
| 25–30 | 37.1 (104) | 64.7 (22) | 41.8 (23) | 25.0 (9) |
| 31 and over | 55.7 (156) | 23.5 (8) | 47.3 (26) | 69.4 (25) |
| Marital status | ||||
| With a partner | 97.9 (273) | 97.1 (33) | 96.4 (53) | 100 (36) |
| Parity | ||||
| Primi | 48.0 (134) | 47.1 (16) | 30.5 (17) | 55.6 (20) |
| Second | 41.9 (117) | 35.3 (12) | 46.3 (25) | 38.9 (14) |
| Third or more | 10.0 (28) | 17.7 (6) | 22.2 (12) | † |
| Antenatal care centre | ||||
| Amager | 75.0 (210) | 20.6 (7) | 41.8 (23) | 72.2 (26) |
| Hvidovre | 2.1 (6) | † | 5.5 (3) | † |
| Ishoej | 12.5 (35) | 58.8 (20) | 30.9 (17) | † |
| Taastrup | 10.4 (29) | 20.6 (7) | 21.8 (12) | 19.4 (7) |
| Maternal education* | ||||
| Short education | 11.4 (32) | † | 21.8 (12) | 8.33 (3) |
| Long education | 77.9 (218) | 73.5 (25) | 45.5 (22) | 61.1 (22) |
| Other | 10.7 (30) | 20.6 (7) | 32.7 (18) | 30.6 (11) |
| Main language at home | ||||
| Danish | 96.4 (268) | 61.8 (21) | 38.9 (21) | 36.1 (13) |
| Non-Danish | 3.6 (10) | 38.2 (13) | 61.1 (33) | 63.9 (23) |
*Categories defined as short education (0–10 years at school, short courses, vocational education, short higher education (2–3 years)), long (middle and higher education, 3+ years) and other (non-specified school and school achieved outside Denmark).
†Censored due to low numbers.