Dta on Reasons for no or Short Breastfeeding: Are They Reliable and Do They Help Us Understand Infant Feeding Behaviour?

B.K. Defo and J. DaVanzo

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Abstract: This paper uses unique data from teh 1976-77 and 1988-89 malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLSs) to address two quations: 1) Are the reported reasons for not initiating breastfeeding or for stopping breastfeeding reliable based in indices of agreement of responses between the two surveys and/or conventional multivariate analytses of overall versus reason-specific breastfeeding duration? 2) What do we gain by separating analyses of age-specific breastfeeding cessation by reported reasons?

Keywords: WOMEN; CHILDREN (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J10 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 1996
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