Table 3.

Determinants of exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months after birth

Variable	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Hospital delivery	0.0736***		0.0774***
	(3.24e-05)		(2.16e-05)
Professional antenatal care	0.0565**	0.0535**	0.0650**
	(0.0276)	(0.0366)	(0.0151)
Mother's education: Primary	-0.0191	-0.0189
	(0.348)	(0.351)
Secondary	0.00242	0.000595
	(0.942)	(0.986)
Post-secondary	-0.0311	-0.0357
	(0.609)	(0.558)
Location: Rural	-0.0474	-0.0446	-0.0724**
	(0.120)	(0.144)	(0.0474)
Region: East	-0.0199	-0.0162	-0.0131
	(0.435)	(0.523)	(0.631)
North	0.138***	0.141***	0.153***
	(3.67e-07)	(1.68e-07)	(6.02e-08)
West	0.0356	0.0378	0.0410
	(0.167)	(0.143)	(0.136)
Married	0.0488**	0.0478**	0.0472*
	(0.0433)	(0.0473)	(0.0599)
Religion: Protestant	-0.0641***	-0.0655***	-0.0721***
	(0.000498)	(0.000371)	(0.000169)
Muslim	-0.0940***	-0.0969***	-0.112***
	(0.000472)	(0.000309)	(0.000111)
Other	-0.0495*	-0.0537*	-0.0648**
	(0.0717)	(0.0505)	(0.0236)
Wealth quintile: Poor	-0.0284	-0.0371	-0.0298
	(0.242)	(0.117)	(0.211)
Middle	-0.0988***	-0.108***	-0.0943***
	(0.000279)	(4.41e-05)	(0.000468)
Rich	-0.0671**	-0.0846***	-0.0590**
	(0.0223)	(0.00261)	(0.0409)
Richest	-0.0843**	-0.103***	-0.0647*
	(0.0192)	(0.00300)	(0.0795)
Feeding with bottle	-0.0391*	-0.0413*	-0.0249
	(0.0708)	(0.0559)	(0.285)
Professional birth attendant		-0.0786***
		(1.09e-05)
Observations	4,259	4,263	3,907

Robust p values in parentheses;

***p<0.01;

**p<0.05;

*p<0.1;

In all the three models, we controlled for education of the father and child's gender. In Model 3, we controlled for occupation of the mother and father. The results have not been displayed to save space because these are insignificant