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. 2021 Jul 7;48(12):932–938. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001504

TABLE 1.

Demographics of Included and Excluded Pregnant Persons

Excluded Included 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
No. 2,034,359 3,270,610 459,248 394,013 345,766 331,175 336,112 339,843 344,074 355,643 364,736
Age group, y
 16–19 180,830 (8.9) 262,759 (8.0) 45,056 (9.8) 36,785 (9.3) 31,075 (9.0) 27,394 (8.3) 26,171 (7.8) 25,083 (7.4) 23,983 (7.0) 23,716 (6.7) 23,496 (6.4)
 20–24 486,974 (23.9) 719,912 (22.0) 105,921 (23.1) 90,550 (23.0) 79,272 (22.9) 75,553 (22.8) 75,517 (22.5) 74,077 (21.8) 72,710 (21.1) 73,118 (20.6) 73,194 (20.1)
 25–30 708,316 (34.8) 1,154,570 (35.3) 159,346 (34.7) 137,799 (35.0) 120,959 (35.0) 116,426 (35.2) 119,124 (35.4) 121,481 (35.8) 123,305 (35.8) 126,547 (35.6) 129,583 (35.5)
 31–40 658,239 (32.4) 1,133,369 (34.7) 148,925 (32.4) 128,879 (32.7) 114,460 (33.1) 111,802 (33.8) 115,300 (34.3) 119,202 (35.1) 124,076 (36.1) 132,262 (37.2) 138,463 (38.0)
Race/Ethnicity*
 Not available 1,180,839 (58.0) 1,470,192 (45.0) 219,798 (47.9) 178,930 (45.4) 148,572 (42.0) 139,799 (42.2) 148,226 (44.1) 151,449 (44.6) 152,621 (44.4) 160,719 (45.2) 170,078 (46.6)
 Black NH 178,544 (20.9) 354,671 (19.7) 49,609 (20.7) 45,077 (21.0) 40,762 (20.7) 39,793 (20.8) 37,446 (19.9) 35,743 (19.0) 35,437 (18.5) 35,935 (18.4) 34,869 (17.9)
 White NH 397,023 (46.5) 835,324 (46.4) 119,595 (50.0) 105,206 (48.9) 94,891 (48.1) 91,321 (47.7) 86,684 (46.1) 84,736 (45.0) 85,046 (44.4) 84,536 (43.4) 83,309 (42.8)
 Hispanic 177,665 (20.8) 423,521 (23.5) 49,943 (20.9) 45,602 (21.2) 43,150 (21.9) 42,383 (22.2) 44,563 (23.7) 47,655 (25.3) 49,149 (25.7) 50,710 (26.0) 50,366 (25.9)
 Other 100,288 (11.8) 186,902 (10.4) 20,303 (8.5) 19,198 (8.9) 18,391 (9.3) 17,879 (9.3) 19,193 (10.2) 20,260 (10.8) 21,821 (11.4) 23,743 (12.2) 26,114 (13.4)
Payer type
 Medicaid 514,460 (28.0) 850,137 (26.7) 128,339 (28.6) 117,646 (30.6) 102,098 (30.3) 99,620 (30.8) 96,460 (29.6) 84,653 (25.9) 76,429 (22.8) 74,674 (21.5) 70,218 (19.8)
 Private payer 1,324,607 (72.0) 2,332,413 (73.3) 319,757 (71.4) 266,331 (69.4) 234,739 (69.7) 223,466 (69.2) 228,991 (70.4) 241,762 (74.1) 259,332 (77.2) 272,659 (78.5) 285,376 (80.3)

The table represents demographics for persons during first known pregnancy. Numbers in parentheses represent the proportion of the population in each demographic group; category sums may not total 100% because of rounding.

*Percentages for individual race/ethnicities are based on a denominator of those with available data.

Payer type data were either not available or were Medicare data for 88,060 (2.7%) of included and 195,292 (9.6%) of excluded pregnant persons.

NH indicates non-Hispanic.