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Tahtay Maichew district in Ethiopia is the focus of this dataset on exclusive breastfeeding practices from 2024. It contains maternal and child socio-demographic characteristics and associated factors for 346 participants. The dataset was authored by Mebrahtom Birhane Tikue and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify socio-demographic factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding based on maternal characteristics.
• Analyze regional breastfeeding practices based on data from a specific Ethiopian district.
• Model predictors of infant feeding behavior based on child characteristics mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0), permitting broad reuse.
• Focuses on a specific geographic region and year (Tahtay Maichew district, 2024).
• Includes data from 346 participants, providing a defined sample size.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (13.5 KB), indicating limited scope and detail.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Mebrahtom Birhane Tikue via figshare

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 17:56:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tahtay Maichew district, Ethiopia