After posting yesterday I went back and reread the text that should have
clarified the methodology and realized a very small yet very important
word was not included in the paragraph.  The corrected paragraph is now
live on the site, stating the following:

"Since January 2003, these breastfeeding questions have been asked of
ALL survey respondents to assess the population's breastfeeding
practices."

(I added the caps to "all" here so it would be more visible.)

I share some reservations about the bundling of vaccination and
breastfeeding data together, however, as many things in public health
often are, the different issues needed to be weighed, and the option was
to continue to not have a nationally representative source of bf data
that did not come from a formula company or include bf items into an
existing surveillance system that has been validated and established in
communities.  I am okay with the overall gain achieved with the
combination of items, realizing that, like any large system, drawbacks
exist.

Katherine


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