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2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

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Figure B- 1. Characteristics of Mothers with Newborns in <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong> aa Source: Vital Statistics. Sample numbers exclude mothers who gave birth in <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong> but were residents of othercounties and mothers who responded “I don’t know” to any item. Mothers who had multiple births were counted once.bTo be consistent with the racial/ethnic categories in the survey, mothers who identified as Haitian are coded as black.c Because not all mothers in the county were screened at birth, we calculated a Chapin Hall risk index based on their number of11 maternal demographic and health characteristics recorded in Vital Statistics. <strong>The</strong>se were the following: (1) no or late prenatalcare, (2) no high school diploma or GED, (3) not married, (4) age 19 or less at birth, (5) not born in U.S., (6) used WIC whilepregnant, (7) smoked, (8) prior medical complications (other than previous C-section), (9) delivery complications, (10) baby’sweight less than 2500 grams, and (11) baby’s gestational age 36 weeks or less. Mothers who responded “I don’t know” to any ofthese items were not coded as “at risk” for that item.Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 169

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