Table 4

Maternal demographic characteristics recorded on birth certificates of northern California samplesa

Northern California Family Cohort


Source population

Contacted

Tier I

Tier II

Tier III


Number of households

11,850

1,955

499

186

30


Age

*b

*b


Mean

28.7

30.8

31.6

31.7

30.3


Age group

*b

*b


Under 25 years

27.8%

17.2%

13.4%

11.3%

16.7%

25-34 years

52.4%

53.9%

53.3%

58.1%

56.7%

35-44 years

19.5%

28.3%

33.1%

30.1%

26.7%

45+

0.3%

0.6%

0.2%

0.5%

0.0%


Education level

*b

*b

**c


0-8 years

8.3%

7.2%

4.6%

0.5%

0.0%

9-11 years

12.8%

10.4%

6.4%

1.6%

6.7%

12 years

25.9%

16.3%

12.6%

12.4%

10.0%

13-15 years

19.9%

20.2%

21.0%

22.0%

10.0%

16 years

17.7%

23.7%

24.6%

26.3%

33.3%

>16 years

15.4%

22.3%

30.7%

37.1%

40.0%


Race/ethnicityd

*b

*b


White

71.0%

71.3%

80.0%

79.6%

93.3%

Asian

20.2%

23.6%

15.6%

16.2%

6.7%

African American

6.5%

3.5%

3.6%

3.2%

0.0%

Native American

0.7%

0.3%

0.2%

0.5%

0.0%

Other/Missing

1.6%

1.3%

0.6%

0.5%

0.0%


Hispanic identification

*b

*b

**c


Latino

33.2%

24.1%

21.6%

11.9%

23.1%

Non-Latino

66.5%

75.6%

78.2%

87.6%

76.9%

Missing

0.3%

0.3%

0.2%

0.5%

0.0%


Place of birth

*b

*b

**c


USA

55.3%

56.8%

68.5%

76.3%

80.0%

Mexico

18.4%

13.9%

10.6%

2.7%

6.7%

Other

26.2%

29.2%

20.6%

21.0%

13.3%

Missing

0.1%

0.1%

0.2%

0.0%

0.0%


Publicly funded delivery

*b

*b


Yes

33.6%

21.5%

17.0%

8.6%

13.3%

No

66.2%

78.4%

82.6%

91.4%

86.7%

Missing

0.2%

0.2%

0.4%

0.0%

0.0%


aAll households participated in Tier I: some also participated in either Tier II or Tier III. Data shown are column percents.

bP value of comparison source population. cP Value of comparison to Tier 1 cohort.

dAsian ethnicity includes Indian and Filipino. Native American includes Hawaiian, Aleut, Eskimo.

* Indicates significance at the <0.0001 level.

** Indicates significance at the 0.0001 level.

Hertz-Picciotto et al. Environmental Health 2010 9:54   doi:10.1186/1476-069X-9-54

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