Just received an extract from a report from the Australian Bureau of
Statistics "Australian Social Trends 1997". It includes some
"unpublished" breastfeeding data from the major 1995 National Health
Survey in Australia.  This is the first data I have seen from this
survey, which actually had reasonably good questions on
breastfeeding.

Were never breastfed      12.4%
Were breastfed    87.6%
   Less than one week     1.9%
   Two weeks or more      77.7%
   Two months or more     68.1%
   Six months or more     47.1%
   One year or more       15.3%
   Unknown duration       2.3%

Ros Escott BAppSc IBCLC
Tasmania, Australia