Ethnic and social inequalities in women's experience of maternity care in England: results of a national survey.

Objective: To examine ethnic and social inequalities in women's experience of maternity care in England.

Design: A 2007 national survey of women (16 years or over) about their experience of maternity care. Multiple logistic regression analysis, controlling for several maternal characteristics, was used to examine inequalities by ethnicity, partner status and education.