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Table 2 Percentage distribution of mother’s levels of education and stillbirth rates by educational level

From: Socioeconomic inequalities in stillbirth rates in Europe: measuring the gap using routine data from the Euro-Peristat Project

  

Distribution of births

 

Stillbirth rates

Country

Total Births

Primary and lower secondary

Higher secondary

Post-secondary

Total Stillbirths (SB)

Overall SB rate

SB rate Primay and lower secondary

SB rate Higher secondary

SB rate Post-secondary

 

N (all stated)

%

%

%

N

p 1000

p 1000

p 1000

p 1000

Austria

72069

16.9

46.1

37.0

227

3.1

4.9

3.3

2.1

BE: Brussels

22965

22.4

37.1

40.5

44

1.9

1.9

2.6

1.3

BE: Flanders

62438

12.2

39.3

48.5

179

2.9

3.8

3.6

2.0

BE: Wallonia

29546

17.8

39.9

42.2

75

2.5

4.7

2.4

1.8

Cyprus

8302

9.5

29.8

60.6

25

3.0

2.5

4.8

2.2

Czech Republic

108843

10.9

42.9

46.2

191

1.8

3.8

1.6

1.5

Denmark

58841

16.6

36.7

46.6

220

3.7

5.7

3.9

2.9

Estonia

15613

14.2

46.2

39.6

61

3.9

7.2

4.0

2.6

Finland

51775

--

46.2

53.8

152

2.9

--

3.3

2.6

France

14060

28.3

19.9

51.8

61

4.3

6.0

5.0

3.2

Hungary

89979

20.0

46.3

33.7

349

3.9

8.2

3.5

1.8

Italy

529166

33.0

44.2

22.7

1388

2.6

3.2

2.4

2.2

Latvia

19246

16.3

39.6

44.1

107

5.6

7.0

6.0

4.6

Lithuania

30472

12.9

29.1

58.0

136

4.5

6.1

5.2

3.7

Luxembourg

6082

21.8

30.9

47.4

29

4.8

5.3

4.8

4.5

Malta

2987

0.3

63.9

35.8

11

3.7

0.0

4.2

2.8

Norway

53705

18.7

29.0

52.3

162

3.0

3.8

3.2

2.7

Poland

408878

8.8

49.7

41.6

1629

4.0

6.5

4.6

2.8

Portugal

98618

18.1

51.2

30.7

227

2.3

3.3

2.5

1.4

Slovenia

19074

17.3

46.0

36.7

74

3.9

4.5

3.4

4.1

Spain

464657

38.3

28.4

33.2

990

2.1

2.8

1.8

1.6