Prenatal care and socioeconomic status: effect on cesarean delivery

Health Economics Review

Table 2 Prenatal education attendance rates according to household socioeconomic characteristics

	Full sample (N = 82,417)			Low-risk subsample (N = 10,947)
	Deliveries, %	Attendance rate, %	Chi-square test	Deliveries, %	Attendance rate, %	Chi-square test
Woman’s socioeconomic level
Familial situation	(n = 81,062)			(n = 10,769)
Married or cohabiting	97.9	55.2	188.4^a	97.7	75.5	58.9^a
Single	2.1	38.4		2.3	54.2
Healthcare coverage	(n = 80,889)			(n = 10,724)
Insured	98.5	55.1	35.0^a	98.4	75.3	8.2^a
Uninsured	1.5	46.6		1.6	65.9
Education	(n = 65,006)			(n = 8673)
Primary school	2.7	21.9	4200.0^a	1.4	38.8	602.3^a
Some secondary school	13.8	32.7		10.4	51.9
Completed secondary school	21.7	45.0		21.1	64.3
College or university	61.8	63.3		67.1	82.2
Occupation	(n = 57,115)			(n = 7906)
Manual worker	1.3	35.4	1100.0^a	1.0	60.8	217.6^a
Office, sales, or service staff	54.7	53.3		58.5	73.7
Farmer	0.3	40.9		0.2	62.5
Craft/trades worker or entrepreneur	3.0	56.2		2.7	76.1
Intermediate (technical)	8.9	59.4		9.2	81.6
Managerial or higher intellectual	31.8	67.1		28.4	88.5
Work status	(n = 67,502)			(n = 8977)
Working	69.8	60.8	3500.0^a	75.7	80.7	533.5^a
Unemployed	6.6	47.4		7.5	62.0
Not in labor force	23.6	34.0		16.8	53.9
Partner’s socioeconomic level
Occupation	(n = 63,959)			(n = 8454)
Manual worker	9.1	35.6	2000.0^a	8.3	57.0	363.7^a
Office, sales, or service staff	39.7	50.0		44.2	71.1
Farmer	0.4	43.3		0.3	70.8
Craft/trades worker or entrepreneur	7.3	51.5		6.5	74.6
Intermediate (technical)	5.9	58.5		6.7	81.1
Managerial or higher intellectual	37.6	64.4		34.0	86.3
Work status	(n = 64,121)			(n = 8606)
Working	89.9	56.3	688.3^a	89.9	77.5	149.5^a
Unemployed	4.3	37.5		3.9	57.9
Not in labor force	5.8	40.5		6.2	59.2

The full sample is composed of all live deliveries performed in the hospitals of the French administrative district of Yvelines in 2008–2014. The low-risk subsample only includes those deliveries of nulliparous women aged 20–34 years, without any diagnosis or co-morbidity, giving birth at full term, by vaginal delivery, without induction, to a singleton infant in cephalic presentation, and with a normal birth weight
^a = 1% significance level

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