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. 2020 Sep 24;16:87. doi: 10.1186/s12992-020-00612-0

Table 1.

Characteristics of the study population by origin

Native Spanish High-income countries Non-high-income European countries Africa Latin America Asia All migrant born
Singleton births 2,401,964 65,220 100,773 127,040 223,162 25,942 542,137
% 82% 12% 19% 23% 41% 5% 100.0%
Mean Birthweight 3281.7 3318.1 3368.3 3407.4 3390.1 3320.7 3378.1
Infant sex %
 Male 51.3 51.0 51.5 51.7 51.2 52.0 51.4
 Female 48.7 49.0 48.5 48.3 48.8 48.0 48.6
Birth order %
 1st 54.4 53.9 58.0 38.4 49.0 44.4 48.5
 2nd - 3th 44.1 44.0 40.1 52.0 47.1 51.0 46.8
 4th+ 1.5 2.1 1.9 9.6 3.9 4.5 4.7
Labor complications %
 Yes 13.1 13.9 12.2 14.2 15.9 11.6 14.4
 No 86.9 86.1 87.8 85.8 84.1 88.4 85.6
Caesarean delivery %
 Yes 22.9 22.5 18.4 20.2 24.8 20.7 22.1
 No 77.1 77.6 81.6 79.8 75.2 79.3 77.9
Age of mother %
  < 20 1.5 1.2 3.9 3.1 4.1 1.3 3.4
 20–30 30.2 28.3 58.8 56.1 45.1 63.2 49.1
 31+ 68.3 70.6 37.3 40.8 50.8 35.5 47.6
Marital status of mother %
 Married/Partner 62.7 52.7 55.0 83.3 45.9 70.0 58.3
 Never married 33.7 42.8 39.4 14.8 48.3 28.2 37.2
 Separated/Divorced 3.4 4.2 5.3 1.8 5.6 1.7 4.3
 Widow 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2
Education of mother %
 Primary or less 8.4 7.5 18.0 61.1 14.9 41.1 26.6
 Lower Secondary 20.4 17.7 33.8 20.9 32.4 31.1 28.1
 Upper Secondary 30.1 30.6 30.5 12.5 33.6 18.5 27.0
 University 41.1 44.3 17.8 5.5 19.2 9.3 18.3
Family class %
 Manager/Professional 16.2 19.6 5.6 1.8 7.9 3.9 7.2
 White Collar 26.0 27.4 9.4 3.3 12.2 4.6 11.0
 Service Workers 17.3 18.4 15.8 8.6 20.1 41.3 17.4
 Skilled Workers 15.4 9.4 13.1 8.7 7.8 3.6 9.0
 Unskilled Workers 7.4 6.6 19.6 15.1 11.5 9.6 13.2
 Inactive 17.7 18.7 36.6 62.6 40.6 37.0 42.2
Citizenship of mother %
 Spanish 99.8 38.9 1.5 6.8 31.8 5.2 19.9
 Other 0.2 61.1 98.5 93.2 68.2 94.9 80.1
Mean Age of father 34.4 35.3 33.0 36.8 33.5 32.5 34.3
Migratory status of father
 Native 94.3 64.3 24.7 7.7 34.6 6.9 28.7
 Migrant 5.7 35.7 75.4 92.3 65.4 93.2 71.3