Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.91. Percent of mothers of 2-month old infants who attributed each level of importance to following the label directions that say to feed or refrigerate the prepared formula immediately or discard the formula by selected demographics1, among formula feeding mothers

Infant Feeding Practices Study II
  N Not at all
important		 Somewhat
important		 Very
important		 Total (%)
ALL 1,530 0.7 13.9 85.4 100
Age
18-24 407 0.7 12.5 86.7 100
25-29 469 0.2 12.4 87.4 100
30-34 413 0.7 18.6 80.6 100
35+ 240 1.3 11.3 87.5 100
Parity
Primiparous 476 0.4 13.2 86.3 100
Multiparous 1,014 0.7 14.4 84.9 100
Education
HS or less 351 0.3 11.1 88.6 100
Some college 587 0.7 12.4 86.9 100
College graduate 457 0.9 19.7 79.4 100
Income (% of poverty)
< 185% 666 0.3 11.7 88.0 100
185- < 350% 520 0.6 15.8 83.7 100
>=350% 344 1.5 15.4 83.1 100
WIC Participant
No 819 1.0 17.3 81.7 100
Yes 711 0.3 10.0 89.7 100
Race
White 1,250 0.8 14.9 84.3 100
Black 69 0.0 8.7 91.3 100
Hispanic 97 0.0 7.2 92.8 100
Region
Northeast 293 0.3 14.3 85.3 100
Midwest 463 0.2 15.1 84.7 100
South 522 0.6 12.8 86.6 100
West 252 2.0 13.5 84.5 100

1Table is based on variables: M2E11