Preference for cesarean section in young nulligravid women in eight OECD countries and implications for reproductive health education

Table 2 Proportion of women who prefer CS in a low risk pregnancy and national CS rates

	N	All	Australia	NZ	UK	USA	Canada	Chile	Germany	Iceland
Preferences for CS in low risk pregnancy- all women	3616	10.8	16.0	10.3	10.2	10.1	8.9	11.8	9.1	9.2
Preferences for CS in low risk pregnancy- standardized cohort^a	1390	11.7	18.4	14.4	11.9	10.0	14.7	12.8	10.1	7.6
National CS rate^b	NA	NA	32.4	25.9	26.2	32.2	27.3	56.0	32.9	15.5

^awomen aged 18–25 who do not study health sciences and were born in the survey country
^bOECD 2013 data for all countries except Chile; Chilean data is from Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos, Chile. Situación de los Derechos Humanos en Chile, Informe Anual 2016

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