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Table 1 Maternal characteristics by smoking status (unadjusted for sample weighting)

From: Prevalence of maternal smoking and environmental tobacco smoke exposure during pregnancy and impact on birth weight: retrospective study using Millennium Cohort

Maternal Characteristics

Non-smoker, non ETS exposed (n = 8100)

Non-smoker, ETS exposed (n = 2259)

Active smoker (n = 6397)

Excluded due to missing smoking data (n = 1541)

Maternal age at birth Mean (SD)

29.6 (5.6)

28.7 (5.5)

26.2 (6.0)

29.2 (5.8)

BMI Mean (SD)

24.0 (4.4)

24.0 (4.8)

23.2 (4.4)

23.8 (4.4)

Parity (previous live births) N (%) *

    

None

3310 (42.2)

862 (40.1)

2838 (45.2)

496 (36.0)

1–2

3952 (50.4)

1083 (50.4)

2882 (45.9)

750 (54.5)

3 or more

572 (7.3)

203 (9.4)

553 (8.8)

131 (9.5)

Alcohol use in pregnancy N (%)

622 (7.7)

157 (7.0)

684 (10.7)

98 (6.6)

Ethnicity N (column %) *

    

White

6501 (80.4)

1701 (75.4)

6058 (94.9)

1018 (68.2)

Asian

872 (10.8)

412 (18.3)

76 (1.2)

364 (24.4)

Black

438 (5.4)

43 (1.9)

117 (1.8)

64 (4.3)

Mixed or other

275 (3.4)

100 (4.4)

134 (2.1)

46 (3.1)

Education N (column %) *

    

Degree

1942 (24.0)

320 (14.2)

351 (5.5)

247 (16.4)

Diploma or A level

1714 (21.2)

440 (19.5)

789 (12.4)

278 (18.5)

O levels

3090 (38.2)

938 (41.6)

3401 (53.3)

633 (42.1)

None of the above

1342 (16.6)

558 (24.7)

1840 (28.8)

347 (23.1)

Income (£) N (column %) *

    

Less than 10,400

1482 (19.9)

424 (20.3)

2514 (42.2)

256 (20.9)

10,400 to 20,800

2194 (29.5)

835 (40.0)

2058 (34.5)

453 (37.0)

20,800 to 31,300

1723 (23.2)

469 (22.5)

822 (13.8)

240 (19.6)

Above 31,200

2035 (27.4)

358 (17.2)

568 (9.5)

277 (22.6)

  1. * where numbers in column do not add up to column total, this is due to missing data