| Percentage of Children Born in Two Years Preceding Survey who Ever Breastfed and for Last- Born Children Born in Two Years Preceding Survey who were Ever Breastfed, Percentage who Started Breastfeeding within One Hour and One Day of Birth and Percentage who Received Prelacteal Feed by Background Characteristics in India (2015-2016) | ||||||
| Background Characteristic | Percentage Ever Breastfed | Number of Children | Among Last-Born Children Born in the Past Two Years who were Ever Breastfed, Percentage who Started Breastfeeding | Percentage who Received a Prelacteal Feed3 | Number of Last-Born Ever Breastfed Children | |
| Within One Hour of Birth1 | Within One Day of Birth2 | |||||
| Residence | ||||||
| Urban | ||||||
| Rural | ||||||
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | ||||||
| Female | ||||||
| Mother`s Schooling | ||||||
| No Schooling | ||||||
| <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 | ||||||
