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. 2015 Jun 30;5(6):e007453. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007453

Table 2.

Frequency distribution of days absent from work prevaccination and postvaccination among mothers with a firstborn child in the first year of life during the epidemic period and the non-epidemic period, and among women aged 30–35 years old with no firstborn child during the epidemic period only

Days 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Full cohort of women with firstborn child, epidemic period
 0 70 85 78 94 101 116 131 159 167
 1 34 26 32 22 39 54 37 32 41
 2 10 17 14 33 16 22 13 30 19
 3 8 8 14 15 13 14 16 16 10
 4 12 13 11 10 19 8 10 10 11
 5 31 48 31 35 35 13 14 9 17
 Total N 165 197 180 209 223 227 221 256 265
 Total N of absent days 281 376 301 348 361 237 221 225 238
 Average 1.703 1.909 1.672 1.665 1.619 1.044 1 0.879 0.898
 95% CI + 2.005 2.201 1.955 1.924 1.873 1.264 1.236 1.09 1.116
 95% CI− 1.401 1.617 1.389 1.406 1.365 0.825 0.764 0.668 0.68
Cohort of women aged 30–35 year, epidemic period
 0 248 303 365 399 435 242 440 500 464
 1 179 176 168 191 257 372 167 206 230
 2 106 104 123 109 128 162 109 126 195
 3 63 60 76 79 79 72 101 139 111
 4 61 77 93 81 97 77 65 71 89
 5 157 155 160 215 203 81 144 144 200
 Total N 814 875 985 1074 1199 1006 1026 1186 1289
 Total N of absent days 1609 1647 1814 2045 2153 1625 1668 1879 2309
 Average 1.977 1.882 1.842 1.904 1.796 1.615 1.626 1.584 1.791
 95% CI + 2.106 2.008 1.96 2.021 1.903 1.711 1.74 1.688 1.892
 95% CI− 1.847 1.757 1.724 1.787 1.689 1.519 1.512 1.481 1.691
Full cohort of women with firstborn child, non-epidemic period
 0 96 142 116 129 142 158 142 163 176
 1 25 27 24 32 27 20 29 34 31
 2 22 13 16 19 22 22 13 14 20
 3 5 3 9 16 14 12 13 17 14
 4 8 7 6 9 10 9 6 12 12
 5 9 5 9 4 8 6 18 16 12
 Total N 165 197 180 209 223 227 221 256 265
 Total N of absent days 161 115 152 174 193 166 208 241 221
 Average 0.976 0.584 0.844 0.833 0.865 0.731 0.941 0.941 0.834
 95% CI + 1.203 0.801 1.07 1.026 1.063 0.931 1.156 1.136 1.023
 95% CI− 0.749 0.367 0.618 0.639 0.668 0.532 0.727 0.746 0.645

N, working mothers.