International Breastfeeding Journal

Table 5 Relationship between respondents’ demographic characteristics and practice of breastfeeding

From: Perception and practice of breastfeeding among HIV positive mothers receiving care for prevention of mother to child transmission in South-East, Nigeria

Demographic variables	Breastfed last child
Demographic variables	Private, n (%)	χ²(p value)	Public, n (%)	χ²(p value)
Age category (years)
≤ 24	12 (100)	6.62 (0.14)	6 (75.0)	10.4 (0.67)
25–29	64 (72.7)		63 (70.8)
30–34	119 (82.6)		97 (78.2)
≥ 35	24 (82.8)		41 (75.9)
Level of education
No formal education	12 (80.0)	0.01 (1.00)	10 (100)	10.5 (0.86)
Primary	33 (80.5)		36 (72.0 0
Secondary	97 (80.2)		113 (78.5)
Tertiary	79 (80.6)		48(67.6)
Employment status
Unemployed	88 (80.7)	1.64 (0.44)	53 (76.)	2.2 (0.71)
Paid employment	41 (74.5)		33 (71.7)
Self-employed	92 (82.9)		121 (75.6)
Marital status
Unmarried	32 (55.6)	12.69 (< 0.01)*	23 (69.7)	0.6 (0.44)
Currently married	189 (80.4)	12.69 (< 0.01)*	183 (75.9)	0.6 (0.44)
Parity category
1–3	171 (84.2)	7.37 (0.21)	116 (71.6)	3.3 (0.15)
4–6	50 (69.4)	7.37 (0.21)	91 (80.5)	3.3 (0.15)
Household income provider (s)
Partner only	139 (81.8)	4.55 (0.41)	136 (78.2)	14.1 (0.02)*
Self only	46 (82.1)		36 (59.0)
Partner and self only	36 (73.5)		35 (87.5)

% percent of the group
*Refers to p values of less than 0.05 which imply statistical significance

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