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Statistics on Women's Smoking Status at Time of Delivery - England, Quarter 4, 2011-12

05:34 July 20, 2017 - 09:30 May 24, 2012

Publication date: May 24, 2012

Summary

This report presents the latest results and trends from the women's smoking status at time of delivery (SATOD) data collection in England. It includes new figures for the fourth quarter of 2011/12 and for 2011/12 as a whole, along with revisions to previous quarters.

The results provide a measure of the prevalence of smoking among pregnant women at Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and Primary Care Trust (PCT) levels.This supplements the national information available from the quinquennial Infant Feeding Survey (IFS).

Babies from deprived backgrounds are more likely to be born to mothers who smoke, and to have much greater exposure to secondhand smoke in childhood. Smoking remains one of the few modifiable risk factors in pregnancy. It can cause a range of serious health problems, including lower birth weight, pre-term birth, placental complications and perinatal mortality.

Reports in the series prior to 2011/12 quarter 3 are available on the Department of Health Website

Key facts

In England in 2011/12:

The percentage of mothers smoking at delivery was 13.2 per cent, lower than the 2010/11 outturn (13.5 per cent), 2009/10 outturn (14.1 per cent) and 2008/09 outturn (14.4 per cent) (Table 1).
Amongst all Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs), this varied from 20.6 per cent in the North East SHA to 6.0 per cent in London SHA (Table 5).
Amongst the 150 Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) that passed validation, smoking prevalence at delivery ranged from 29.7 per cent in Blackpool PCT to 2.9 per cent in Westminster PCT (Table 5).