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PRAMS:

• Go to the NC Center for Health Statistics website: http://www.schs.state.nc.us/
• Click on the Statistics and Reports tab at the top of the website.
• You will then see a list of SCHS online publications sorted in different ways. Scan down the links and select the one for PRAMS. You will use the information from this site to answer the following questions.

1. What does PRAMS stand for? (1 pt) >>

2. In the menu on the left, select Overview to read a little about the PRAMS. Then click on Data Collection which appears as a link on the left after you select the overview.

1. What is the population that the data from PRAMS are trying to find out about? (1 pt)

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2. How does the PRAMS obtain the participants for their study? Be specific about roughly how many people they include each year, when they talked to these people, and how they selected the people who would be in their study. (2 pts) >>

3. How are participants contacted to be in the study? Hint: You will need to click on the data methodology link to find out more information to answer this question. Just sum up the main strategies used in 1-2 sentence (you dont have to write every single step) (2 pts) >>

3. To look at some of the results, click on Survey Results (1 pt)
   1. What is the first (oldest) year for which data are available? >>
   2. What is the most recent year for which data are available? >>

4. Suppose we want to find out what percent of mothers were breastfeeding 8 weeks after they delivered their infant. Click on the data for 2011. Then click on Breastfeeding and select Breastfeeding at 8 weeks after delivery
   1. What percent of all mothers who answered this question were breastfeeding 8 weeks after delivery? (1 pt) >>

2. Which age group had the highest rates of breastfeeding? (1 pt) >>

3. Which education group had the highest rates of breastfeeding? (1 pt) >>

4. Suggest one reason why this education group might have higher rates than the other two groups. Note: There isnt a single right or wrong answer to this question. You should suggest a reason that makes sense to you (1 pt) >>

5. Suppose you want to know some reasons why mothers might not be breastfeeding. Under the breastfeeding category, select Reasons mothers cited for not breastfeeding
   1. What was the most common reason people cited for not breastfeeding? (1 pt) >>

2. What percent of mothers who answered this question said that they did not breastfeed because they went back to work or school? (1 pt) >>

• 3. Using the information from this question, create a chart that shows the percentage of women who gave each reason. Make sure your chart has (6 pts):
• To make the chart easier to interpret, order the responses from least common response to most common response.
• an informative title (someone reading the chart should know what information is in the chart)
• each bar labeled
• the x-axis correctly labeled and should be 0-100 if percentage or 0-1 if proportion (do not just use the default scale that Excel uses)
• the y-axis correctly labels
• no legend (for a regular column chart) or a legend (if you have a stacked column chart)

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