Fig. 1

Select breastfeeding a and complementary feeding b practices by ethnicity. Data from Alive & Thrive baseline surveys, 2011 and 2012 [24, 25]. Values are percentages, n = 1875. ^a,b,c Different letters within an age group indicate statistically different; P < 0.05, two-sided χ ² test. We used data from mothers with children 0–23 months old for early initiation of breastfeeding, prelacteal feeding, bottle feeding (n = 1875); 0–5 months old for exclusive and predominant breastfeeding (n = 943); children 6–8 months old (n = 189) for feeding of complementary feeding at 6–8 months; and children from 6 to 23 months old (n = 932) for other three complementary feeding practices