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Baby & You Survey Program, 2024 Birth Cohort, Survey 1 Data Tables
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Data source: Baby & You Survey Program, 2024 Birth Cohort, Survey 1 (data collected between 4/2024-5/2025)
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Table of contents:
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Table 1 - Demographics
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Table 2 - Breastfeeding
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Table 3 - Immunizations
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Table 4 - Perinatal Mental Health
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Table 5 - Perinatal Conditions and Care
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Table 6 - Parental Leave
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Table 7 - Finances and Resource Insecurities
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Table 8 - Substance Use
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Table 9 - Discrimination
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Description of data source:

The Baby & You Survey Program selects around 280 postpartum people each month (~3400 per year) from recent birth certificates and invites these people to join an online survey program. Participants who join take the first survey at 3-4 months postpartum and are invited by email and text message to take additional surveys around their baby's first, second, and third birthdays. Baby & You intentionally includes higher proportions of postpartum people who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American, and Asian/Pacific Islander in order to collect more representative data for these groups. Survey responses are weighted to the Colorado birth population to adjust for intentional inclusion and differences in response so that Baby & You data is representative of all birthing people living in Colorado. Data are weighted on race, ethnicity, Medicaid status, age, marital status, parity, education, and geography.

These data come from Baby & You Survey 1, which participants complete at 3-4 months postpartum. Data collection for the 2024 birth cohort began in April of 2024 with January 2024 births. The majority of participants completed Survey 1 between 3-4 months postpartum. Of the 3,490 postpartum people who gave birth in 2024 who were invited to join Baby & You, 1,691 (48%) enrolled and 1,655 (47%) completed Survey 1. Although you will see the unweighted counts for different subpopulations within these tables so that the viewer can get an idea of sample population sizes, all percentages and confidence intervals are weighted to represent the full eligible Colorado birth population in 2024.

Please see a summary of questions across all Baby & You surveys and a folder with files of all of the survey instruments for more details on the data that Baby & You collects and specific question wording.
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How to navigate this spreadsheet:

Survey 1 questions/data have been organized into 9 different topic areas (Demographics, Breastfeeding, Immunizations, Mental Health, Perinatal Care and Conditions, Parental Leave, Finances and Resource Insecurities, Substance Use, and Discrimination), which are each broken out into their own tabs within this spreadsheet. Within each of these tabs, you will find the weighted percentages and confidence intervals for all survey questions and some calculated fields (ex. PACV Score that combines all PACV5 responses to come up with a cumulative score of vaccine hesitance) within that topic area. Weighted percentages and confidence intervals are provided for the Colorado birthing population overall as well as for any relevant sub-populations for the table (defined in the columns). Survey questions ("Measures") and their response options ("Levels") form the rows in the spreadsheet. To compare across populations on a single measure, scan horizontally left and right along a row. To look at measures only within a single population, scan vertically up and down a column.
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How to interpret the tables:

For each measure/level and population, we have provided a "Percent", "Lower 95% Confidence Interval", and an "Upper 95% Confidence Interval." The "Percent" is the proportion of the birthing population within Colorado or within a subpopulation that has the characteristic, perspective or experience described by the measure/level. In some cases, questions are only asked of some survey respondents (ex. questions about parental leave are only asked of those who worked during pregnancy), so you would interpret those percents not among the whole birth population but among people who were eligible to answer that question (ex. Among birthing people who worked during pregnancy in Colorado, 61.7% took paid leave).

"Confidence intervals" are used in survey data collection to reflect the uncertainty around a percent that results from random error/chance in who was randomly selected to participate. A confidence interval has a lower and upper bound, and the true population percent (if you could collect data from everyone in the birth population) would likely fall in that range of values. Confidence intervals tend to be wider for percents that are based on smaller sample sizes and narrower for percents based on larger sample sizes. Confidence intervals can be used to get a quick impression of whether differences in percentages observed between populations are likely to be statistically significant. If the confidence intervals of two percents (Percent A and Percent B) do not overlap at all, then Percent A is significantly different than Percent B. If confidence intervals overlap to the degree that Percent A is within the confidence interval for Percent B or Percent B is within the confidence interval for Percent A, then they are unlikely to be significantly different. If confidence intervals overlap for Percent A and Percent B, but Percent A is not within the confidence interval of Percent B or Percent B is not within the confidence interval for Percent A, then they still may be significantly different and more rigorous statistical testing is needed.

However, statistical significance is not the end all be all and can cause us to dismiss socially or clinically important findings. This is a data equity issue as this disproportionately affects smaller, underrepresented populations that are more likely to have wider confidence intervals around their estimates. Baby & You seeks to collect more representative data by intentionally including historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, and we are also committed to a more holistic approach to data interpretation that considers but does not overvalue statistical significance.

Within the tables, an asterisk '*' indicates that the denominator for that measure is too small (<30 birthing persons) to provide a reliable estimate. These measures are suppressed in order to prevent overinterpretation of these data.

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How to request additional breakdowns or deidentified data:

Baby & You estimates or de-identified data sets can be requested directly from the Baby & You Program Coordinator and Baby & You Analyst.

Baby & You Program Coordinator

Sarah Blackwell
Email: sarah.blackwell@state.co.us
Phone: 303-692-2257

Baby & You Program Analyst

Juan Vazquez Jr.
Email: Juan.VazquezJr@state.co.us
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