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Volume 24, Number 12—December 2018
Research

Influences of Community Interventions on Zika Prevention Behaviors of Pregnant Women, Puerto Rico, July 2016–June 20171

Giulia Earle-RichardsonComments to Author , Christine Prue, Khadija Turay, and Dana Thomas
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Table 1

Demographic characteristics of all women giving birth in 2016 and interview participants, Puerto Rico, July 2016–June 2017*

Characteristic Sample size,
no. (%) Women who gave birth in 2016, no. (%)†
>18 y of age All ages
Total sample
1,329 (100)
27,230 (100)
28,257 (100)
Age group, y
<18‡ 0 0 1,027 (4)
18–22 353 (27) 7,963 (29) 7,963 (28)
23–25 324 (24) 5,436 (20) 5,436 (19)
26–29 319 (24) 5,884 (22) 5,884 (21)
>30 333 (25) 7,947 (29) 7,947 (28)
Total sample
1,329 (100)
27,230 (100)
28,257 (100)
Educational attainment
Some high school or less 24 (3) 427 (2) 579 (2)
Attended or completed 12th grade 285 (31) 9,105 (34)§ 9,958§ (35)
Attended or completed university 545 (60) 15,648 (58) 15,670 (55)
Attended or completed graduate program 55 (6) 2031 (8) 2,031 (7)
Total sample
909¶ (100)
27,230 (100)
28,257 (100)
Participation in WIC program#
1,329 (100)
23,679 (87)
24,671 (87)
Geographic region of Puerto Rico
Metropolitan San Juan 203 (15) 2,864 (11) 2,955 (10)
Metropolitan Bayamon 182 (14) 1,556 (6) 1,597 (6)
Nonmetropolitan regions 941 (71) 22,810 (83) 23,705 (84)
Total sample 1,327 (100) 27,230 (100) 28,257 (100)

*NCHS, National Center for Health Statistics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention); WIC, Women, Infants, and Children Program (US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service).
†Source: NCHS’s US Territories, 2016 natality public use file (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm).
‡Because women had to be >18 years of age to participate, the <18 age category is empty for the WIC sample.
§In the NCHS data, this group includes 9th–12th grade, not just 12th grade.
¶The educational attainment data in the WIC dataset (n = 909) were incomplete. The data here represent 68% of the total sample of 1,329.
#Source: WIC (https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/women-infants-and-children-wic).

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented as a poster presentation at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 29, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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