Table 2. Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding in children under 24 months of age in Brazil, by age and population survey, from 1986 to 2013.

Age (months)	Year				Period
	1986 a	1996 b	2006 c	2013 d	1986/1996 (10 years) f	1996/2006 (10 years) f	2006/2013 (7 years) f	1986/2013 (27 years) f
	Prevalence (%) e				Difference (%) f
0–2	6.0	42.4	50.0	49.7	36.4	7.6	-0.3	43.7
3–5	1.6	12.6	29.7	14.6	11.0	17.1	-15.1	13.0

^a National Survey on Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning of 1986.

^b National Demography and Health Survey of 1996.

^c National Survey on Demography and Children and Women’s Health of 2006.

^d National Health Survey of 2013.

^e Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding calculated by the current status method, with smoothed estimates by moving averages, according to the method proposed by Segall-Corrêa et al.c (2009).

^f Absolute difference calculated by the difference between the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding.