Volume 24, Number 12—December 2018
Research
Influences of Community Interventions on Zika Prevention Behaviors of Pregnant Women, Puerto Rico, July 2016–June 20171
, Christine Prue, Khadija Turay, and Dana Thomas
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).
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.