Table 3 Crude and adjusted odds ratios of adverse birth outcomes among births to Inuit residents in the Hudson Bay communities where midwives were the primary birthing attendants vs the Ungava Bay communities where physicians were the primary birthing attendants, Nunavik, 1989–2000
OutcomeCrude OR (95% CI)Adjusted OR* (95% CI)
For all births
    Preterm birth0.95 (0.74 to 1.21)0.94 (0.73 to 1.20)
    SGA birth1.14 (0.82 to 1.58)1.48 (0.82 to 2.68)
    LBW birth0.87 (0.63 to 1.21)0.85 (0.61 to 1.18)
    Perinatal death1.33 (0.67 to 2.65)1.29 (0.63 to 2.64)
    Stillbirth1.01 (0.37 to 2.71)0.97 (0.39 to 2.41)
    Neonatal death1.70 (0.65 to 4.49)1.60 (0.59 to 4.39)
    Post-neonatal death1.27 (0.63 to 2.55)1.22 (0.58 to 2.56)
    Infant death1.41 (0.80 to 2.48)1.34 (0.75 to 2.40)
For births⩾28 weeks
    Perinatal death1.10 (0.49 to 2.48)1.13 (0.48 to 2.67)
    Stillbirth1.05 (0.36 to 3.02)0.98 (0.36 to 2.62)
    Neonatal death1.18 (0.33 to 4.18)1.30 (0.39 to 4.34)
  • OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; LBW, low birthweight (<2500 g); SGA, small-for-gestational-age (<10th percentile).

  • *The odds ratios (ORs) from multilevel logistic regression models adjusting for maternal age (<20, 20–34, ⩾35 years), education (<completed high school, completed high school (11 years) and ⩾ some college), marital status (single, common law union, married), parity (primiparous or not), infant sex (boy, girl), plurality (singleton, multiple), community size (population <1000, ⩾1000) and community-level random effects.