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Breast-feeding in Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. Mohiuddin Ahamed
M. Mohiuddin Ahamed
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Summary

In data from the Bangladesh Fertility Survey on 4998 live births, the mean duration of breast-feeding in Bangladesh was 27·3 months. Duration of breast-feeding was positively related with the age of women. Female children were breast-fed for periods about 5 months shorter than for male children. Children born to urban mothers of all age groups were breast-fed for shorter durations than children born to rural mothers of all age groups. The duration of breast-feeding decreased with the increase of education of mother.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 425 - 434
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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