In the presence of the resource variables, the relationships of the context variables to early BF did not differ markedly from the findings in table 2. For maternal education, the sole finding was of increased risk of non-EarlyBF among mothers with incomplete primary education, compared to those with secondary or higher education in 2003 and 2008 2009.
Primary incomplete, Primary, Secondary, High School and College indicate 1 5 years of schooling, 6 8 years of schooling, 9 11 years of schooling.
In Table 10, we show the proportion of the rural population in the two young cohorts of 2004 with either complete or incomplete primary or secondary education and the education levels of those same cohorts in the rural sector 8 years later.
In addition, the proportion of return migrants with incomplete primary schooling is similar to that of stayers.
Primary Incomplete, Primary, Secondary, High School and College indicate that the individual completed 1-5 years, 6-8 years, 9-11 12-16 years6 yeand and 17 years or more of schooling, respectively.
The mother's education was divided into the following categories based on whether a particular level of the Brazilian educational system was completed: incomplete primary education (IPE), complete primary education (CPE), incomplete secondary education (ISE), complete secondary education (CSE), incomplete higher education (IHE), and complete higher education (CHE).
No formal education, 2. Incomplete primary school, 3. Complete primary school, 4. Incomplete secondary school: technical/vocational type, 5. Complete secondary school: technical/vocational type, 6. Incomplete secondary: university-preparatory type, 7. Complete secondary: university-preparatory type, 8. Some university-level education, without degree, 9. University-level education, with degree".
Education was specified as having no schooling or incomplete primary, complete primary schooling, or having completed secondary or higher schooling.
Young mothers have lower education than older mothers: 64.6% of mothers aged 15 17 had incomplete primary or no schooling, whereas 23.1% of women who had their first birth between the ages of 27 and 29 had only incomplete primary or no schooling (table 3).
Self-reported maternal education level was categorized as no education, incomplete primary, complete primary and incomplete secondary education.
