Influence of neighbourhood purchasing power on breastfeeding at four months of age: a Swedish population-based cohort study

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of the study population based on their neighbourhood-level (parish) purchasing power

	n^*	Not breast-feeding at 4 m (%)	Mother ≤20 yrs (%)	Mother smoker (%)	Mother and father without/with post-secondary education (%)
Neighbourhood purchasing power ^†
<10	374	16.3	0.8	0.8	20.4/47.4
10–19.9	689	19.2	0.3	2.5	27.9/37.8
20–29.9	1106	22.7	2.7	8.7	45.0/25.8
30+	238	29.4	0.9	7.2	46.8/22.1

^*Number of mothers with data on breast-feeding at four months. There are additional missing data on maternal age (n = 17), maternal smoking (n = 21) and parental educational level (n = 160).
^†Proportion (%) of families with low neighbourhood household purchasing power (according to Swedish standards; < USD 19 500 household purchasing power) among all resident families with at least one child (up to 19 years old) in a neighbourhood area (parish). Neighbourhood household purchasing power was defined as total family disposable income adjusted for the composition of the family (number of adults and children).

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