The role of hospital midwives in the Netherlands

Table 3 Births in secondary care, by mode of intervention

year	children born in secondary care (% of all children born)	spontaneous, without induction or augmentation of labour	spontaneous with augmentation of labour	spontaneous with induction of labour	spontaneous (total)	assisted births (vacuum/forceps/CS)
	n*	%	%	%	%	%
1998	111547 (0.56)	0,30	0,11	0,19	0,61	0,39
1999	108941 (0.54)	0,30	0,12	0,19	0,60	0,40
2000	116208 (0.56)	0,29	0,12	0,18	0,59	0,41
2001	113022 (0.55)	0,27	0,11	0,18	0,56	0,44
2002	108153 (0.53)	0,28	0,12	0,17	0,56	0,44
2003	111470 (0.55)	0,29	0,12	0,16	0,58	0,42
2004	108412 (0.56)	0,29	0,13	0,15	0,58	0,42
2005	104930 (0.56)	0,29	0,14	0,15	0,59	0,41
2006	108137 (0.58)	0,30	0,15	0,15	0,60	0,40
2007	109285 (0.60)	0,29	0,17	0,16	0,61	0,39
Total	1100105 (0.56)	0,29	0,13	0,17	0,59	0,41

* differences with Table 1 are due to missing values on the intervention variable

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