TABLE 1—

County-Level Rates of Personal Beliefs Exemptions (PBEs) From Mandated School-Entry Vaccinations: California Kindergartners, 2012

County	Kindergartners,a No.	PBEs,b Crude No.	PBE Rate/100,c %	PBE Rate Rankingd	Absolute Change in Rate Since 2010, %
Alameda	19 313	314	1.6	43	0.4
Alpine	19	2	10.5	7	10.5
Amador	282	22	7.8	17	3.9
Butte	2625	149	5.7	21	0.9
Calaveras	395	43	10.9	6	5.3
Colusa	399	3	0.8	54	−0.6
Contra Costa	14 593	307	2.1	40	0.0
Del Norte	286	33	11.5	3	4.4
El Dorado	2427	197	8.1	15	0.5
Fresno	17 232	254	1.5	46	0.3
Glenn	378	4	1.1	51	0.8
Humboldt	1505	165	11.0	5	1.2
Imperial	2720	4	0.1	57	−0.2
Inyo	207	3	1.4	47	−0.6
Kern	15 722	272	1.7	42	0.1
Kings	2500	18	0.7	56	−0.5
Lake	720	38	5.3	23	2.6
Lassen	345	21	6.1	19	5.1
Los Angeles	131 145	2422	1.8	41	0.3
Madera	2536	57	2.2	38	1.2
Marin	3389	261	7.7	18	0.6
Mariposa	115	12	10.4	8	7.4
Mendocino	1079	89	8.2	13	1.8
Merced	4743	43	0.9	53	0.4
Modoc	109	4	3.7	30	1.9
Mono	136	5	3.7	29	0.9
Monterey	6620	94	1.4	47	0.3
Napa	1681	61	3.6	31	1.2
Nevada	827	173	20.9	1	3.5
Orange	42 260	1261	3.0	34	0.4
Placer	5530	448	8.1	15	3.8
Plumas	194	18	9.3	10	3.1
Riverside	33 961	773	2.3	37	0.4
Sacramento	19 566	834	4.3	25	1.1
San Benito	890	7	0.8	54	−0.5
San Bernardino	31 972	787	2.5	36	0.7
San Diego	42 433	1625	3.8	28	0.7
San Francisco	6641	91	1.4	47	0.2
San Joaquin	11 139	111	1.0	52	−0.1
San Luis Obispo	3000	172	5.7	21	0.8
San Mateo	9489	200	2.1	39	0.1
Santa Barbara	6082	252	4.1	26	0.9
Santa Clara	24 734	408	1.6	43	−0.1
Santa Cruz	3527	324	9.2	11	−0.4
Shasta	2103	172	8.2	13	2.2
Sierra	18	0	0.0	58	−7.1
Siskiyou	457	46	10.1	9	−1.4
Solano	5373	84	1.6	45	0.2
Sonoma	6523	401	6.1	19	0.2
Stanislaus	8614	345	4.0	27	0.7
Sutter	1651	143	8.7	12	1.7
Tehama	892	41	4.6	24	0.8
Trinity	91	15	16.5	2	−0.8
Tulare	8640	105	1.2	50	0.3
Tuolumne	446	51	11.4	4	1.5
Ventura	12 000	409	3.4	32	0.4
Yolo	2406	82	3.4	32	0.6
Yuba	1231	32	2.6	35	0.3
Total	525 911	14 307	2.7	…	0.4

^aSchool-level data from the California Department of Public Health. Schools with < 10 kindergartners were excluded from the analyses. Exemptions are reported in December of each year.

^bNumber of kindergartners with ≥ 1 PBEs on file.

^cNumber of kindergartners with ≥ 1 PBEs/100 kindergartners/year.

^dFrom 1 (highest rate) to 58 (lowest rate). Counties with identical rates are assigned the same rank.