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 "id": "breastfeeding-england",
 "title": "Babies breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks, England",
 "category": "health",
 "summary": "The share of babies in England totally or partially breastfed at their 6 to 8 week review, each quarter and over the year to March, from OHID's breastfeeding statistics, for the councils whose returns pass its validation.",
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 "notes": [
  "Babies totally or partially breastfed at their 6 to 8 week health visitor review, as a share of the babies due a review, as OHID gives them as fractions, shown here as percentages.",
  "England's figures are OHID's aggregate of the local councils whose returns passed its first stage of validation, so the councils counted can change from one quarter or year to the next."
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  "publisher": "Office for Health Improvement and Disparities",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
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  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:49:50Z",
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  "label": "Totally or partially breastfed",
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  "period": "2025/26",
  "note": "over the year April 2025 to March 2026, with a 95% confidence interval of 57.2% to 57.4%"
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   "name": "Totally or partially breastfed",
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