Table 4 Infant feeding methods by borough of residence at 6 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 months.
Feeding methods | 6 weeks | 17 weeks | 6 months | |||||||||
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|  | Total No (%) | BwD No (%) | Hyndburn No (%) | PΔ value | Total No (%) | BwD No (%) | Hyndburn No (%) | PΔ value | Total No (%) | BwD No (%) | Hyndburn No (%) | PΔ value |
Exclusively breast | 1,449 (69.2%) | 1,120 (70.3%) | 329 (65.8%) | 0.0594 | 930 (46.2%) | 740 (48.2%) | 190 (39.7%) | 0.0011 | 262 (13.4%) | 223 (14.9%) | 39 (8.5%) | 0.0002 |
Exclusively formula | 327 (15.6%) | 235 (14.7%) | 92 (18.4%) | 0.0484 | 414 (20.6%) | 299 (19.5%) | 115 (24.1%) | 0.0212 | 85 (4.3%) | 70 (4.7%) | 15 (3.3%) | 0.1941 |
Formula & Breast | 318 (15.2%) | 239 (15.0%) | 79 (15.8%) | 0.6183 | 258 (12.8%) | 200 (13.0%) | 58 (12.1%) | 0.5853 | 55 (2.8%) | 43 (2.9%) | 12 (2.6%) | 0.7511 |
Breast & solid# | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 53 (2.6%) | 38 (2.5%) | 15 (3.1%) | 0.3360 | 502 (25.6%) | 392 (26.2%) | 110 (23.9%) | 0.0233 |
Formula & solid# | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 4 (0.2%) | 4 (0.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0.3111 | 93 (4.7%) | 84 (5.6%) | 9 (2.0%) | 0.0004 |
Breast, formula & solid# | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 28 (1.4%) | 20 (1.3%) | 8 (1.7%) | 0.3905 | 179 (9.1%) | 130 (8.7%) | 49 (10.6%) | 0.1972 |
Solid# | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 2 (0.1%) | 2 (0.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | - |
Had stopped BF* | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | - | 326 (16.2%) | 234 (15.2%) | 92 (19.2%) | 0.0336 | 781 (39.9%) | 554 (37.0%) | 227 (49.2%) | < 0.0001 |
Total valid data | 2,094 (100.0%) | 1,594 (100.0%) | 500 (100.0%) | - | 2,013 (100.0%) | 1,535 (100.0%) | 478 (100.0%) | - | 1,959 (100.0%) | 1,498 (100.0%) | 461 (100.0%) | - |
Missing data | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0.2081 | 94 | 71 | 23 | 0.8057 | 148 | 108 | 40 | 0.3188 |