Multivitamin Use (2012–2022)

Definition

The percentages of resident persons with a live birth who reported either...

(1) taking daily multivitamins/folic acid 4 or more times a week in the month prior to pregnancy or

(2) taking daily multivitamins/folic acid less than 4 times a week in the month prior to pregnancy.

This indicator is stratified by Alaska Public Health Region.

Region is determined by maternal residence, not site of delivery.

During the month before you got pregnant with your new baby, how many times a week did you take a multivitamin, prenatal vitamin, or a folic acid vitamin?

Data Source

Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) for 2012–2022

More data on this topic can be found using the

Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Data Visualization Tool Version 1.: Alaska Department of Health, Division of Public Health, Section of Women's, Children's, and Family Health; accessed on: 2024-09-24.

Notes

The percentages reported above have been produced by weighting the sample so that the results better represent the Alaska population.

Last Updated

2024-09