Table 1

Mean birth weight by descriptive characteristics of mother, includes all mothers in study

NumberMean95% confidence interval
*438 mothers no known place of birth; †includes Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, South America; ‡13 women with other religions, 8 missing; Post hoc analysis of variance; LSD-groups with the same superscript letters are statistically significantly different from each other p<0.05; §number in [ ] used for summarising significant multiple comparisons; 1 v. 3,4,5,6,7; 2 v. 3,4,5,6,7; 3 v. 1,2,4,5,6; 4 v. 1,2,3,5; 5 v. 1,2,3,4; 6 v. 1,2,3; 7 v. 1,2.
All mothers239531103092 to 3129
Mother’s place of birth*
    India8003077 a,b3046 to 3108
    Pakistan3893235 a,b,c,d3187 to 3283
    Bangladesh2473161 b3101 to 3220
    East Africa1943035 c,e2978 to 3093
    Fiji273242 e3026 to 3458
    Other outside UK†1732303035 to 3424
    UK2833043 d2989 to 3096
Religion‡
    Sikh12163061 a3036 to 3086
    Hindu3133078 b3024 to 3124
    Muslim8533195 a,b3165 to 3229
Gestational age§
    37–38 [1]15728382769 to 2908
    38–39 [2]36428972853 to 2942
    39–40 [3]53030853051 to 3119
    40–41 [4]93031813152 to 3210
    41–42 [5]28932873236 to 3338
    42–43 [6]10932573154 to 3359
    43+ [7]1631622936 to 3389