Geographical equity in Ethiopian infant feeding practices: a secondary analysis of a birth cohort study
Objectives To assess the geographical equity in Ethiopian infants’ exclusive breastfeeding at 5 months and dietary diversity at 12 months and whether social factors explained the spatial inequities. Design Secondary analysis of a birth cohort study. Setting Analysis of data from the Ethiopian Performance Monitoring for Action panel study conducted from July 2020 to August 2021 in five regions (ie, Oromia, Amhara, Afar and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples regions and the Addis Ababa City administration). We analysed geographical autocorrelation to assess geographical variations in exclusive breastfeeding and dietary diversity. Areas with higher and lower coverage of appropriate infant feeding outcomes were analysed using hotspot analyses. We performed geographically weighted regression to investigate whether sociodemographic factors explained the geographical feeding differences. Participants 1850 infants were prospectively followed from birth to 12 months. Outcome measures E
