Table 5.
Characteristics of zero-dose children in all three districts.
| Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Endline | % Diff (95% CI) | p-Value | |
| N = 869 | N = 60 | |||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 440 (49.4) | 29 (47.7) | −1.7 (−13.2, 9.7) | 0.7675 |
| Female | 429 (50.6) | 31 (52.3) | 1.7 (−9.7, 13.2) | 0.7675 |
| Maternal Education | ||||
| No formal schooling | 790 (88.5) | 58 (97.4) | 8.9 (3.5, 14.3) | 0.0015 |
| Primary | 55 (9.3) | 1 (0.7) | −8.6 (−12.1, −5.0) | <0.0001 |
| Secondary | 14 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Intermediate or above | 10 (0.8) | 1 (2.0) | 1.2 (−2.9, 5.2) | 0.5729 |
| Wealth Quintile | ||||
| Poorest | 285 (20.8) | 20 (23.5) | 2.7 (−14.2, 19.6) | 0.7508 |
| Poor | 256 (25.6) | 26 (44.0) | 18.4 (3.1, 33.6) | 0.0186 |
| Middle | 202 (33.1) | 8 (21.1) | −12.0 (−29.0, 5.0) | 0.1662 |
| Rich | 95 (15.9) | 4 (7.8) | −8.1 (−19.0, 2.8) | 0.1435 |
| Richest | 31 (4.6) | 2 (3.6) | −1.0 (−8.5, 6.5) | 0.7930 |
| Reason for Not Receiving Immunization | ||||
| Place of immunization too far | 95 (15.7) | 4 (7.1) | −8.5 (−16.9, −0.1) | 0.0462 |
| Inconvenient/unknown timing/long wait | 47 (6.0) | 4 (3.5) | −2.5 (−6.7, 1.8) | 0.2492 |
| Parent/caretaker busy | 58 (6.2) | 4 (8.2) | 2.0 (−9.1, 13.1) | 0.7231 |
| Child not well | 54 (7.1) | 2 (2.3) | −4.9 (−9.3, −0.5) | 0.0305 |
| Rumors | 127 (12.3) | 6 (9.2) | −3.1 (−13.3, 7.1) | 0.5452 |
| No faith in immunization | 141 (17.4) | 18 (31.2) | 13.9 (−3.9, 31.7) | 0.1256 |
| Fear of side effects | 205 (19.0) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Vaccinator/vaccine not available | 69 (5.6) | 1 (3.4) | −2.2 (−9.5, 5.1) | 0.5477 |
| Others | 5 (0.9) | |||
| Do not know | 39 (6.7) | 4 (5.9) | −0.8 (−8.0, 6.3) | 0.8221 |