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Percentage of mothers who give their babies breast milk in the first 48 hours after delivery (12033) Metric type
- Help text
- Measures the percentage of mothers who give their babies breast milk in the first 48 hours after delivery. The numerator is the number of mothers initiating breast feeding and the denominator is the total number of maternities and then multiplied by 100.
The denominator in this indicator implicitly assumes that all patients whose breastfeeding initiation status is unknown did not initiate breastfeeding. This will result in an underestimate of the percentage of mothers initiating breastfeeding.
For 2012/13 and earlier, the data for this indicator was only available at PCT level. Therefore in some cases local authority values were estimated. For local authorities that were wholly contained within a PCT, the value for the whole PCT was used for that local authority. For those local authorities that were split across PCT boundaries, the local authority value was estimated using weighted PCT data. From 2013/14, this indicator is available directly at local authority level. As a result, between 2012/13 and 2013/14 there might be unexpected increases or decreases in the trajectory of this indicator for particular local authorities.
- Modified
- 12 Nov 2020
- Data last updated
- 13 Nov 2023
- Also known as
- PHOF 2.02i
- 2.02i
- 2.02i - Breastfeeding initiation
- Short label
- Breastfeeding initiation (% maternities)
- Status
- Discontinu
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- %
- Dataset
- PHE National Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network
- Collection
- Public Health Outcomes Framework
- Source
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
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