Health Indicators

This new issue of Health Indicators, an Internet-based data publication, features updated health region level data and maps based on the most recent vital and cancer statistics available. Updates include: life expectancy, infant mortality, low-birth weight, and mortality rates by selected causes.

Also featured in this release are breastfeeding rates by province,
territory, and peer group. The 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey found
that 19% of Canadian mothers who had a baby in the last five years breastfed
for at least six months, without introducing other solids or liquids. Women
using this method of feeding ranged from 10% in Quebec to 29% in British
Columbia

To view Breastfeeding practices, females aged 15 to 55 who had a baby in the previous five years, Canada, provinces, territories and peer groups, 2003:

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-221-XIE/2004002/tables/pdf/2178_03.pdf [1]

To view the entire Report from Statistics Canada: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/050201/d050201a.htm [2]