| Percentage of Children Born in Five Years Preceding Survey Who Ever Breastfed and for Last-Born Children Born in Five Years Preceding Survey Who Ever Breastfed, Percentage Who Started Breastfeeding Within Half an Hour, One Hour and One Day of Birth and Percentage Who Received a Prelacteal Feed by Background Characteristics in India (2005-2006) | |||||||
| Background Characteristic | %age Ever Breas- tfed | No. of Children | %age Who Started Breastfeeding | %age Who Received a Prelac- teal Feed3 | No. of Last- Born Ever Breas- tfed Children | ||
| Within Half an Hour of Birth | Within One Hour of Birth1 | Within One Day of Birth2 | |||||
| Residence | |||||||
| Urban | |||||||
| Rural | |||||||
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | |||||||
| Female | |||||||
| Mother`s Education | |||||||
| No education | |||||||
| < 5 years complete | |||||||
| 5-7 years complete | |||||||
| 8-9 years complete | |||||||
| 10-11 years complete | |||||||
| 12 or more years complete | |||||||
| Religion | |||||||
| Hindu | |||||||
| Muslim | |||||||
| Christian | |||||||
| Sikh | |||||||
| Buddhist/Neo-Buddhist | |||||||
| Jain | |||||||
| Other | |||||||
| Caste/Tribe | |||||||
| Scheduled caste | |||||||
| Scheduled tribe | |||||||
| Other backward class | |||||||
| Other | |||||||
| Don`t know | |||||||
| Assistance at Delivery | |||||||
| Health personnel4 | |||||||
| Dai (TBA) | |||||||
| Other/No one | |||||||
| Place of Delivery | |||||||
| Health facility | |||||||
| At home | |||||||
| Other | |||||||
| Wealth Index | |||||||
| Lowest | |||||||
| Second | |||||||
| Middle | |||||||
| Fourth | |||||||
| Highest | |||||||
| Total | |||||||
