Cynthia Visness is correct that Trussel, et al, using DHS and WFS data,
found that the longest mean duration of breastfeeding was for Bangladesh.
Using the current status method of analysis, the mean was 30.5 months for
rural mothers, but 28.2 months for the country as a whole.
Ted Greiner, PhD
Senior Lecturer in International Nutrition
Unit for International Child Health, Entrance 11
Uppsala University
75185 Uppsala
Sweden

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