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Table 1 Infant mortality for singleton births, by maternal corrections history and Indigenous status

From: Determinants of infant mortality for children of women prisoners: a longitudinal linked data study

 

Indigenous infants

Non-Indigenous infants

Survived

Died

Survived

Died

n

n

IMRa

RR

(95% CI)

p-value

n

n

IMRa

RR

(95% CI)

p-value

Maternal corrections history

Prison (before pregnancyb)

2742

62

22.1

1.95

(1.45–2.62)

<.001

634

6

9.4

2.25

(0.97–5.22)

0.059

Prison (during pregnancy)

753

25

32.1

2.84

(1.87–4.31)

<.001

243

< 5

8.2

1.96

(0.48–8.00)

0.349

Prison (after birth only)

3481

84

23.6

2.08

(1.59–2.72)

<.001

2491

36

14.2

3.42

(2.24–5.23)

<.001

Community corrections

5588

94

16.5

1.46

(1.13–1.89)

0.004

628

8

12.6

3.02

(1.44–6.33)

0.003

No corrections*

12,400

142

11.3

   

12,186

51

4.2

   
  1. Note Excludes 591 Indigenous and 427 non-Indigenous multiples births
  2. aInfant mortality rate: deaths under 12 months, per 1000 live births
  3. bPrison before, but not during, pregnancy