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. 2020 Aug 9;23(2):349–356. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa145

Table 2.

Number of Pregnancies, Prevalence of Smoking During Pregnancy, and Percentage of Pregnancies With a Swedish-Born Partner, by Women’s Birthplace and Age at Arrival to Sweden, Swedish Pregnancies, 1991–2012

Number of pregnancies Smoking during pregnancy Swedish-born partner
Age at arrival 0–12 y 13–17 y 18 + y 0–12 y 13–17 y ≥18 y 0–12 y 13–17 y ≥18 y
Women’s birthplace n n n % % % p a % % % p a
Other Nordic countries (n = 38 690) 15 419 2068 21 203 35.7 44.3 18.2 <.001 23.4 33.1 12.8 <.001
Former Yugoslavia (n = 41 410) 7496 5916 27 998 19.3 16.8 18.9 <.001 18.4 12.7 13.3 <.001
Eastern Europe (n = 27 007) 3844 1631 21 532 22.8 22.3 11.5 <.001 14.5 15.8 8.6 .0930
Middle East (n = 97 038) 12 705 9188 75 145 14.4 10.1 6.3 <.001 10.6 6.8 8.7 .0316
Western Europe (n = 15 524) 3418 505 11 601 20.5 17.5 5.4 <.001 13.4 13.4 5.8 <.001
Latin America (n = 18 577) 6758 1680 10 139 8.0 7.2 5.8 <.001 8.1 5.7 3.7 <.001
United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel (n = 4217) 921 75 3221 13.3 0.0 3.5 .088 13.5 19.4 4.4 <.001
Sub-Saharan Africa (n = 8697) 990 869 6838 12.1 3.5 1.2 <.001 10.8 8.4 6.5 <.001
East Africa (n = 25 413) 1160 2465 21 788 7.3 3.8 1.3 <.001 12.9 15.8 8.8 <.001
North Africa (n = 6641) 215 175 6251 4.1 4.7 1.4 <.001 14.9 30.8 5.3 <.001
Asia (n = 41 763) 12 334 1903 27 526 3.9 1.9 0.9 <.001 11.2 8.2 3.7 <.001

aTest for trends for binomial proportions.