Table 4.
Vaccination card availability
| Survey districts | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bombali n/N (%); [95% CI] |
Tonkolili n/N (%); [95% CI] |
Port Loko n/N (%); [95% CI] |
Survey area n/N (%); [95% CI] |
|
| Vaccination card available and seen during interview |
245/288 (85.1); [79.9–89.1] |
147/168 (87.5); [81.6–91.7] |
184/264 (69.7); [62.9–75.7] |
576/720 (80.0); [76.1–83.4] |
| Vaccination card not seen during interview |
43/288(14.9); [10.9–20.1] |
21/168 (12.5); [8.3–18.4] |
80/264 (30.3); [24.3–37.1] |
144/720 (20.00); [16.6–23.9] |
| Reasons for unavailability vaccination card 1 | ||||
| The card is lost/damaged | 13/41 (31.7) | 6/20 (30.0) | 23/63 (36.5) | 42/124 (33.9) |
| The caretaker was not given one | 3/41 (7.3) | 2/20 (10.0) | 0/63 (0.0) | 5/124 (4.0) |
| Someone else keeps it | 21/41 (51.2) | 10/20 (50.0) | 28/63 (44.4) | 59/124 (47.6) |
| Other | 4/41 (9.8) | 2/20 (10.0) | 12/63 (19.1) | 18/124 (14.5) |
1 No data for 20 cases: 9 children never attended EPI services and in 11 cases a vaccination card was available but not seen during the interview (2 cases in Bombali, 1 case in Tonkolili and 8 cases in Port Loko)