Official Statistics

Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks: quarterly data for 2023 to 2024

Quarterly data about the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks.

Applies to England

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Quarterly official statistics in development for breastfeeding prevalence at 6 to 8 weeks. Information is presented at local authority of residence, region and England level.

The data was collected through an interim reporting system set up to collect health visiting activity data at a local authority resident level. Data is submitted by local authorities on a voluntary basis. Data from previous years can be found in the Child and maternal health statistics collection.

Quarterly figures are provisional and subject to revision, and they are released for the purpose of providing timely figures. The most recently published quarterly file supersedes the previously published file.

Updates to this page

Published 23 January 2024
Last updated 15 August 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added 'Data tables: breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks, April 2023 to March 2024, provisional'.

  2. First published.

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