map preview image

Multivitamin use in the month before pregnancy in Alaska

Change Indicator

Multivitamin use in the month before pregnancy

Data Provided By

Definitions: 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 region.

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 2012-2020, Alaska Department of Health

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

Updated June 2022