National Women's Annual Clinical Report 2010

Table 139: Ethnicity of women birthing at NW (2003-2010)
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
n=7611 n=7491 n=7194 n=7212 n=7695 n=7589 n=7735 n=7709
n % n % n % n % n % n % n % n %
NZ
European
3224 42.4 2911 38.9 2802 38.9 3034 42.1 3161 41.1 2995 39.5 2967 38.4 2898 37.6
Other
European
608 8.0 548 7.3 674 9.4 682 9.5 695 9.0 713 9.4 707 9.1 856 11.1
Maori 486 6.4 509 6.8 545 7.6 597 8.3 641 8.3 641 8.4 670 8.7 579 7.5
Niuean 108 1.4 106 1.4 111 1.5 81 1.1 105 1.4 111 1.5 94 1.2 96 1.2
Cook
Islander
159 2.1 140 1.9 106 1.5 113 1.6 157 2.0 137 1.8 135 1.7 112 1.5
Samoan 439 5.8 425 5.7 339 4.7 384 5.3 372 4.8 433 5.7 400 5.2 422 5.5
Tongan 406 5.3 355 4.7 315 4.4 346 4.8 347 4.5 349 4.6 394 5.1 378 4.9
Fijian
Other
42 0.6 47 0.6 62 0.9 60 0.8 81 1.1 58 0.8 57 0.7 46 0.6
Pacific
Islands
36 0.5 37 0.5 48 0.7 37 0.5 38 0.5 44 0.6 35 0.5 34 0.4
Chinese 811 10.7 871 11.6 769 10.7 707 9.8 881 11.4 874 11.5 995 12.9 950 12.3
Indian 548 7.2 540 7.2 545 7.6 520 7.2 521 6.8 505 6.7 520 6.7 539 7.0
Other
Asian
438 5.8 404 5.4 354 4.9 408 5.7 473 6.1 478 6.3 440 5.7 526 6.8
Other 298 3.9 471 6.3 521 7.2 243 3.4 223 2.9 251 3.3 321 4.1 273 3.5
Not Stated 8 0.1 127 1.7 3 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
3.1 Smoking
Table 140: Smoking status at booking by prioritised ethnicity and maternal age (2010)
Smoking at
booking
Not currently
smoking
Missing data
N n % n % n %
Ethnicity
NZ European 2898 136 4.7 2749 94.9 13 0.4
Maori 579 226 39.0 344 59.4 9 1.6
Pacific 1088 177 16.3 896 82.4 15 1.4
Other Asian 1476 19 1.3 1453 98.4 4 0.3
Indian 539 5 0.9 533 98.9 1 0.2
Other European 856 28 3.3 823 96.1 5 0.6
Other
Age
273 10 3.7 263 96.3 0 0.0
< 20 335 104 31.0 224 66.9 7 2.1
21-25 943 174 18.5 758 80.4 11 1.2
26-30 1998 125 6.3 1863 93.2 10 0.5
31-35 2516 116 4.6 2389 95.0 11 0.4
> 36 1917 82 4.3 1827 95.3 17 0.9
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