Table 2.

Parental^a reasons for not vaccinating girls aged 9–17 years, by age National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2008

	9–10 years	11–12 years	13–17 years	Total
	(n = 260)	(n= 220)	(n= 625)	(n = 1105)
	%b	%b	%b	%b
Does not need vaccine	22.6	22.4	20.4	21.5
Does not know enough about vaccine	15.0	17.6	19.0	17.7
Not sexually active	10.2	11.6	18.5	14.7
Worried about safety of vaccine	14.3	17.1	13.5	14.5
Too young for vaccine	19.0	13.8	3.6	9.9
Doctor did not recommend it	---c	---c	5.2	5.5
Too expensive	---c	---c	---c	1.6
Otherd	5.3	8.6	12.4	9.7
Do not know	6.2	---c	5.2	4.8

^aSample of parents whose daughter was not vaccinated and who did not intend to vaccinate their daughter against HPV if the doctor recommended it.

^bPercentages are weighted to the population of girls 9–17 years of age.

^cEstimate not reported because the relative standard error was > 30% or small unweighted sample size.

^dOther includes the following response categories: Do not know where to get vaccine, My spouse/family member is against it, Already has HPV, Other.