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Published in final edited form as: Popul Res Policy Rev. 2008 Apr 1;27(2):183–199. doi: 10.1007/s11113-007-9059-0

Table 2.

Results of Logistic Regression Analyses Predicting Breastfeeding Initiation by Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Social and Cultural Characteristics²

Variable	Model 1 Odds Ratios	Model 2 Odds Ratios	Model 3 Odds Ratios
(White)
Black	0.39^***	0.57^***	0.51^***
Mexican Immigrant	3.02^***	5.31^***	3.84^***
Mexican-American	0.60^*	0.88	0.81
Background
Age		1.01^*	1.01
High School Degree		1.92^***	1.80^***
WIC Participation		0.73^***	0.77^**
Not Only Child		0.67^***	0.68^***
Father Lives In Home		1.45^***	1.43^***
Acculturation
Cultural Engagement			1.08^***
Traditional Gender Views			0.93^*
Frequency of Church Attendance			1.18^***
Spanish Interview			1.24

N	3,626	3,624	3,596
Model chi-square(df)	335.15(3)^***	412.87(8)^***	862.22(12)^***

Note: Log-odds coefficients and odds ratios are presented in the table.

p<.1,

p<.05,

^**

p<.01,

^***

p<.001, two-tailed tests.

The standard errors are corrected for clustering at the city level using the Huber/White correction.