At a glance
The Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC™) Survey provides information that informs hospitals and partners how to improve maternity care practices. Learn more about the mPINC™ Survey.
2024 mPINC™ survey
CDC's 2024 mPINC survey is now closed.
We would like to extend a BIG THANK YOU to all the hospitals that submitted their 2024 mPINC survey. The data are now being analyzed. Check back here for updates or sign up for our CDC-mPINC-UPDATE listserv to receive periodic updates about the survey status. If you would like to sign up, please email mPINC@cdc.gov with your name and email address.
La encuesta de los CDC sobre las mPINC del 2024 ha finalizado.
Nos gustaría expresar un GRAN AGRADECIMIENTO a todos los hospitales que completaron la encuesta del 2024 sobre las mPINC. Ahora se están siendo analizados. Consulte este sitio para ver las noticias más recientes.
mPINCTM Methods
In 2007, CDC administered the first mPINC™ survey. The survey went to every facility in the United States and territories that routinely provided maternity care services.
The initial survey established practice and policy measures related to breastfeeding at hospitals providing maternity care. CDC administered the survey every other year from 2007 to 2015 to monitor and examine changes in practices over time. After the 2015 administration, CDC redesigned the survey to reflect changes in maternity care practices over the past decade. The redesigned survey launched in 2018.
Survey administration
CDC's contractor, Battelle, begins survey administration by calling each hospital that participated in the previous mPINC™ survey. The contractor uses the phone number of the person who submitted the survey. If you would like to update the mPINC™ survey point of contact at your hospital, please email your name, phone number, and hospital name and address to mPINC@cdc.gov.
Battelle screens all other hospitals. The contractor calls the hospital's switchboard and asks to be transferred to the mother-baby nurse manager or labor and delivery unit manager. The contractor determines if the hospital is eligible to participate. If so, they identify the best person to complete a survey. The survey includes questions about infant nutrition, such as breastfeeding, using formula to feed healthy newborns, and feeding routines.
Because of how CDC administers the survey, the person identified to receive the survey one year is not necessarily the person identified to receive the survey in a later cycle.
To ensure survey validity, CDC follows the same protocol to identify survey recipients at each hospital as described above.
See 2024 mPINC™ survey questions. For more information about the mPINC™ survey, visit our mPINC™ FAQs webpage. If you have additional questions, email them to mPINC@cdc.gov.