Ratio of Medicaid births to non-Medicaid births for percentage of infants exclusively breastfed in the hospital

Source:2008-2010 Vital Statistics Data as of February, 2012

  % Medicaid births % non-Medicaid births Ratio of percentages
Reg- 1 Western New York
Allegany 51.7 72.1 0.72
Cattaraugus 52.7 59.3 0.89
Chautauqua 42.1 64.6 0.65
Erie 42.4 61.1 0.70
Genesee 50.0 68.8 0.73
Niagara 32.7 59.3 0.55
Orleans 38.4 62.5 0.61
Wyoming 52.4 71.3 0.73
Western New York 42.5 61.8 0.69
Reg- 2 Finger Lakes
Chemung 50.0 70.0 0.71
Livingston 51.2 72.9 0.70
Monroe 40.3 73.2 0.55
Ontario 55.1 80.7 0.68
Schuyler 55.2 75.9 0.73
Seneca 53.9 79.8 0.68
Steuben 53.4 71.5 0.75
Wayne 46.8 73.0 0.64
Yates 59.9 85.6 0.70
Finger Lakes 45.3 74.0 0.61
Reg- 3 Central New York
Cayuga 48.9 69.6 0.70
Cortland 58.2 78.7 0.74
Herkimer 43.3 58.5 0.74
Jefferson 47.5 70.2 0.68
Lewis 51.3 71.7 0.72
Madison 54.2 73.6 0.74
Oneida 31.4 56.7 0.55
Onondaga 37.8 70.7 0.54
Oswego 43.8 65.7 0.67
St. Lawrence 52.6 67.5 0.78
Tompkins 57.5 83.5 0.69
Central New York 42.5 68.7 0.62
Reg- 4 New York-Penn
Broome 52.2 71.3 0.73
Chenango 61.8 77.7 0.79
Tioga 63.0 78.7 0.80
New York-Penn 56.5 73.2 0.77
Reg- 5 Northeastern New York
Albany 50.6 58.0 0.87
Clinton 59.4 75.9 0.78
Columbia 48.3 56.4 0.86
Delaware 52.3 70.2 0.75
Essex 58.2 72.3 0.81
Franklin 41.5 64.3 0.65
Fulton 41.0 52.3 0.78
Greene 53.7 58.0 0.93
Hamilton 58.3 67.2 0.87
Montgomery 30.9 54.5 0.57
Otsego 54.0 74.0 0.73
Rensselaer 40.2 52.1 0.77
Saratoga 50.3 68.0 0.74
Schenectady 36.6 57.9 0.63
Schoharie 48.2 68.9 0.70
Warren 54.4 68.8 0.79
Washington 52.9 61.8 0.86
Northeastern New York 47.6 61.3 0.78
Reg- 6 Hudson Valley
Dutchess 50.3 61.6 0.82
Orange 39.9 47.7 0.84
Putnam 69.6 61.2 1.14
Rockland 37.3 39.4 0.95
Sullivan 33.3 53.8 0.62
Ulster 45.3 69.8 0.65
Westchester 45.2 51.0 0.89
Hudson Valley 42.5 52.1 0.82
Reg- 7 New York City
Bronx 25.5 36.4 0.70
Kings 24.9 47.2 0.53
New York 22.7 55.3 0.41
Queens 20.6 36.0 0.57
Richmond 29.2 36.3 0.80
New York City 23.9 44.3 0.54
Reg- 8 Nassau-Suffolk
Nassau 31.3 41.3 0.76
Suffolk 28.5 46.4 0.61
Nassau-Suffolk 29.7 44.0 0.67
New York State 30.1 52.6 0.57

A Medicaid birth is defined as a birth that was paid by the Medicaid, or Child Health Plus, or Family Health Plus insurance program