. 2015 Oct 27;10(10):e0139680. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139680

Table 3. Descriptive characteristics comparing children with and without coverage for MMR at the time of the survey (% unless otherwise noted).

			El Salvador			Guatemala			Honduras			Mexico			Nicaragua			Panama
			Yes	No	p-value	Yes	No	p-value	Yes	No	p-value	Yes	No	p-value	Yes	No	p-value	Yes	No	p-value
Sample size (N)^†			1266	974		2483	1381		1564	790		2043	2850		904	789		1118	544
Child characteristics	Female		48.7	52	0.131	49.5	51.8	0.161	50.3	51.3	0.643	49.7	50.7	0.478	48.9	49.4	0.826	51.9	51.2	0.794
	Age in years	0 years
		1 year	21.1	15.3	<0.001 ^***	25.1	22.2	0.164	23.7	21.4	0.021 ^*	23.3	23	0.468	26.3	21.3	0.022 ^*	25	23.9	0.670
		2 years	22.9	39.2		27.6	29.2		27.8	26.1		23.3	25.2		26.1	25.2		23.9	26.7
		3 years	21.6	33.8		26	25.6		26.3	24.6		27.9	26.5		24.7	25.1		27.2	25.9
		4 years	34.4	11.7		21.3	23		22.2	28		25.4	25.3		22.9	28.4		24	23.5
Maternal characteristics	Attained education	No education	10.9	12.6	0.334	37.2	34.2	0.143	9.2	7	0.001 ^**	17.4	18.6	0.085	12.1	10.7	0.009 ^**	13.8	21.3	0.001 ^**
		Primary education	57.4	54.7		49.9	51.4		73.1	68.2		52.3	54		54	47.8		56.6	54.9
		Secondary education or higher	31.8	32.7		12.9	14.4		17.7	24.8		30.4	27.4		33.9	41.5		29.6	23.8
	Literacy	Illiterate	23.2	25.5	0.197	65	62.6	0.154	37.3	37.7	0.849	43.3	47.8	0.002 ^**	28.8	26.6	0.322	36.5	46.2	0.001 ^**
		Literate	76.8	74.5		35	37.4		62.7	62.3		56.7	52.2		71.2	73.4		63.5	53.8
	Age in years	Age 15–19	7.1	7.7	0.745	7.5	7.3	0.962	6.9	7.1	0.050	6.7	6.4	0.176	9.3	9.4	0.985	8.4	9.2	0.907
		Age 20–34	70.1	68.7		70.4	70.5		72.5	67.6		73.6	71.7		71	71.2		66.1	65.6
		Age 35–49	22.8	23.6		22	22.2		20.6	25.3		19.7	21.9		19.7	19.4		25.4	25.2
	Parity	1 child	27.9	26.9	0.756	18.6	18.3	0.454	24.2	23.4	0.185	15.1	14.5	0.141	29.8	29.8	0.732	10.9	13	0.439
		2–3 children	42.2	41.3		38.7	41.2		41.2	45		44.9	42.2		45.1	43.6		42.5	38.6
		4–5 children	15.3	16.9		22.9	21.1		19	19.3		21	23.3		15.2	17.3		26	26
		6 + children	14.6	14.9		19.8	19.5		15.6	12.3		18.9	20		9.9	9.4		20.6	22.4
	Marital status	Single	13.9	11.8		6.1	8.5		13.8	17.5		1.4	1.7		16	17.1		7.7	8.3
		Married	35.6	39.1		38.7	37.4		33.9	32.6		35.9	34.4		33.1	33.9		8.6	6
		Union	39.6	38.9	0.271	50.7	49.4	0.064	48.8	46.5	0.194	57.2	58	0.579	46.4	43.9	0.757	75.7	77.5	0.401
		Divorced, separated, widowed, other	10.8	10.1		4.5	4.7		3.5	3.4		5.5	5.9		4.6	5.1		8	8.3
	Employment status	Employed and working	9.7	10.3	0.267	3.2	4	0.023 ^*	7.7	13.5	<0.001 ^***	5.1	6.2	0.192	13.1	18.8	0.006 ^**	6.4	4.3	0.203
		Homemaker	88.4	86.8		94.6	92.5		89.6	83.9		93.7	92.4		84.9	78.6		91.1	93.9
		Employed but not working, student, retired, disabled	1.9	2.9		2.2	3.6		2.7	2.6		1.2	1.4		2	2.6		2.4	1.8
Household characteristics	Expenditure quintile	Quintile 1	19.6	20.8	0.931	19.1	23	0.043 ^*	22.3	18.6	<0.001 ^***	23.6	21.7	0.403	22	20.6	0.006 ^**	19.6	19.9	0.008 ^**
		Quintile 2	22.2	21.4		19.8	17.6		20.2	19.1		21.6	22.4		22.9	17.7		18.3	23.7
		Quintile 3	19	19.4		20.1	20.6		20.7	17.2		20.3	20		19.3	21.1		19	17.3
		Quintile 4	19.4	19.5		19.6	18.6		19.7	21		18.9	18.8		20.2	19.2		21.6	15.4
		Quintile 5	19.7	18.9		21.4	20.2		17.1	24		15.6	17.1		15.6	21.4		21.5	23.7
	Average asset index		0.37	0.37	0.438	0.23	0.24	0.256	0.24	0.25	0.015 ^*	0.23	0.23	0.050	0.23	0.24	0.679	0.18	0.17	0.002 ^**
	Average household size (N)		3.04	3.1	0.173	6.61	6.55	0.794	5.74	5.75	0.012 ^*	5.97	6.01	0.795	5.64	5.93	0.115	9.16	9.39	0.050
	Urbanicity	Rural household	73.8	72.4	0.460	87.8	84.3	0.002 ^**	85.1	80.2	0.002 ^**	65	66.4	0.314	71.2	64.6	0.004 ^**	100	100	n/a
		Urban household	26.2	27.6		12.2	15.7		14.9	19.8		35	33.6		28.8	35.4		0	0
	Female head of household		0.27	0.26	0.641	0.13	0.14	0.339	0.18	0.22	0.022 ^*	0.08	0.08	0.444	0.24	0.31	<0.001 ^***	0.28	0.22	0.015 ^**

† N varies by variable due to missing values.

* p<0.05

** p<0.01

*** p<0.001