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Table 1 Characteristics of women planning give birth at home in Victoria (2000–2015)

From: Planned private homebirth in Victoria 2000–2015: a retrospective cohort study of Victorian perinatal data

 

Low risk

High risk

Planned home birth n = 3202

Planned hospital birth n = 701,058

Planned home birth n = 743

Planned hospital birth n = 128,228

Maternal Age

  < 20 yrs

19 (0.6%)

21,845 (3.1%)

2 (0.3%)

2051 (1.6%)

 20-30 yrs

870 (27.2%)

292,891 (41.8%)

162 (21.8%)

44,543 (34.7%)

 30 yrs plus

2269 (70.9%)

385,833 (55%)

573 (77.1%)

81,605 (63.6%)

 Missing

44 (1.4%)

489 (0.1%)

6 (0.8%)

29 (0.02%)

Body Mass Indexa

  < 18.5

74 (2.3%)

9642 (1.4%)

15 (2.0%)

1310 (1.0%)

 18.5 to 24.9

902 (28.2%)

155,936 (22.2%)

196 (26.4%)

25,437 (19.8%)

 25–29.9

284 (8.9%)

74,788 (10.7%)

85 (11.4%)

16,288 (12.7%)

 30plus

98 (3.1%)

30,515 (4.4%)

73 (9.8%)

32,406 (25.3%)

 missing

1844 (57.6%)

430,177 (61.4%)

374 (50.4%)

52,788 (41.2%)

Country of Birth

 Australian/NZ

2515 (78.5%)

500,945 (71.5%)

606 (81.6%)

87,369 (68.1%)

 Non-Australian

481 (15.0%)

175,420 (25.0%)

91 (12.3%)

35,301 (27.5%)

 Missing

206 (6.4%)

24,693 (3.5%)

46 (6.2%)

5558 (4.3%)

Parity

 Nulliparous

1103 (34.5%)

347,079 (49.5%)

142 (19.1%)

41,499 (32.4%)

 Second birth

1187 (37.1%)

218,790 (31.2%)

294 (39.6%)

48,341 (37.7%)

 3rd or subsequent birth

912 (82.5%)

135,181(19.3%)

306 (41.2%)

36,829 (28.7%)

 Missing

0 (0%)

8 (0.001%)

1 (0.1%)

1559 (1.2%)

IRSDb

 1 Most Disadvantaged

365 (11.4%)

130,638 (18.6%)

84 (11.3%)

29,013 (22.6%)

 2

544 (17.0%)

130,782 (18.7%)

110 (14.8%)

26,024 (10.3%)

 3

567 (17.7%)

135,146 (19.3%)

134 (18.0%)

23,966 (18.7%)

 4

740 (21.1%)

132,770 (18.9%)

177 (23.8%)

21,320 (16.6%)

 5-Least Disadvantaged

846 (26.4%)

132,991(19.0%)

176 (23.7%)

19,244 (15.0%)

 Missing

140 (4.4%)

38,731 (5.5%)

62 (8.3%)

8661 (6.8%)

  1. Data presented as N (%)
  2. anot collected until 2009
  3. bIndex of Relative Social Disadvantage (IRSD) quintile