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

Table 7. Child, maternal, and household characteristics associated with a child having a missed opportunity for MMR vaccine .

El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama
N = 1950 N = 2970 N = 1786 N = 4021 N = 1179 N = 1100
OR CI OR CI OR CI OR CI OR CI OR CI
Child characteristics Female 1.140 [0.911,1.425] 1.164 [0.878,1.542] 1.027 [0.778,1.356] 1.030 [0.884,1.201] 1.383 [0.965,1.980] 1.032 [0.757,1.406]
Age in years 0 years N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
1 year 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
2 years 0.782 [0.590,1.036] 2.929 *** [1.978,4.336] 4.681 *** [2.417,9.066] 1.366 ** [1.127,1.655] 1.382 [0.753,2.538] 0.886 [0.577,1.360]
3 years 0.679 * [0.469,0.982] 3.829 *** [2.510,5.842] 5.967 *** [3.427,10.39] 1.694 *** [1.387,2.070] 3.456 *** [2.045,5.839] 1.193 [0.740,1.923]
1.617 ** [1.152,2.269] 5.462 *** [3.524,8.467] 8.816 *** [4.939,15.74] 1.830 *** [1.467,2.283] 5.006 *** [3.108,8.062] 1.705 ** [1.176,2.470]
Maternal characteristics Attained education No education 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
Primary education 1.059 [0.722,1.554] 0.728 * [0.538,0.987] 0.710 [0.436,1.155] 1.088 [0.861,1.375] 0.458 * [0.239,0.878] 0.956 [0.672,1.361]
Secondary education or higher 1.306 [0.800,2.130] 0.693 [0.421,1.141] 0.641 [0.333,1.236] 1.055 [0.777,1.432] 0.251 ** [0.0965,0.652] 0.896 [0.497,1.614]
Literate 0.796 [0.565,1.122] 0.937 [0.661,1.329] 1.183 [0.833,1.680] 0.857 [0.681,1.077] 0.794 [0.504,1.253] 0.907 [0.623,1.321]
Age in years Age 15–19 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
Age 20–34 1.001 [0.646,1.553] 0.726 [0.427,1.233] 0.908 [0.473,1.743] 1.130 [0.815,1.566] 0.892 [0.508,1.567] 0.920 [0.577,1.469]
Age 35–49 1.376 [0.763,2.480] 0.575 [0.293,1.125] 0.831 [0.386,1.791] 1.303 [0.862,1.969] 1.081 [0.493,2.370] 0.808 [0.456,1.434]
Parity 1 child 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
2–3 children 0.695 * [0.526,0.917] 0.959 [0.670,1.374] 1.295 [0.857,1.958] 1.1 [0.852,1.420] 0.794 [0.484,1.304] 1.016 [0.620,1.665]
4–5 children 0.597 ** [0.406,0.880] 1.047 [0.688,1.593] 1.117 [0.687,1.815] 1.108 [0.792,1.552] 0.627 [0.333,1.182] 0.894 [0.481,1.659]
6+ children 0.572 * [0.346,0.946] 0.636 [0.394,1.026] 0.944 [0.472,1.887] 1.184 [0.719,1.951] 0.389 * [0.162,0.935] 0.824 [0.418,1.626]
Marital status Single 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
Married 1.916 ** [1.248,2.941] 1.065 [0.591,1.920] 0.855 [0.534,1.369] 0.673 [0.354,1.281] 0.723 [0.338,1.548] 1.088 [0.531,2.228]
Union 1.493 * [1.023,2.179] 0.949 [0.511,1.762] 1.087 [0.708,1.667] 0.707 [0.375,1.332] 0.895 [0.502,1.598] 0.861 [0.544,1.364]
Divorced, separated, widowed, other 1.372 [0.882,2.134] 1.319 [0.619,2.812] 0.791 [0.270,2.321] 0.846 [0.413,1.733] 0.698 [0.228,2.133] 1.040 [0.487,2.221]
Employment status Employed and working 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
Homemaker 0.916 [0.654,1.283] 1.352 [0.652,2.807] 1.240 [0.754,2.041] 0.847 [0.539,1.329] 1.296 [0.747,2.249] 1.121 [0.618,2.033]
Employed but not working, student, retired, disabled 0.420 * [0.205,0.863] 1.451 [0.502,4.200] 1.847 [0.681,5.006] 1.014 [0.353,2.918] 1.136 [0.345,3.744] 1.498 [0.542,4.140]
Household characteristics Expenditure quintile Quintile 1 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref) 1.000 (ref)
Quintile 2 0.861 [0.608,1.219] 0.938 [0.641,1.373] 1.231 [0.820,1.847] 1.077 [0.820,1.416] 0.724 [0.376,1.394] 1.441 [0.969,2.143]
Quintile 3 1.011 [0.692,1.479] 0.959 [0.648,1.420] 1.546 * [1.010,2.367] 1.009 [0.779,1.306] 0.815 [0.442,1.501] 2.054 ** [1.328,3.177]
Quintile 4 0.879 [0.610,1.265] 0.871 [0.561,1.350] 0.814 [0.507,1.305] 1.066 [0.812,1.398] 0.894 [0.492,1.625] 1.836 ** [1.231,2.740]
Quintile 5 0.842 [0.564,1.259] 1.258 [0.832,1.902] 1.168 [0.737,1.852] 0.969 [0.679,1.385] 1.444 [0.714,2.923] 1.623 * [1.064,2.475]
Average asset index 0.857 [0.433,1.693] 0.609 [0.164,2.264] 0.796 [0.113,5.587] 0.718 [0.223,2.309] 0.640 [0.145,2.823] 0.340 [0.0839,1.381]
Average household size 1.026 [0.945,1.114] 1.058 * [1.014,1.105] 1.003 [0.916,1.097] 0.951 [0.890,1.017] 1.064 [0.991,1.143] 1.007 [0.970,1.045]
Urban household 1.076 [0.763,1.519] 1.336 [0.813,2.197] 0.842 [0.525,1.349] 0.934 [0.655,1.331] 1.523 [0.765,3.033] N/A
Female head of household 1.011 [0.745,1.370] 0.992 [0.696,1.415] 0.996 [0.635,1.562] 0.958 [0.668,1.374] 1.162 [0.627,2.155] 0.842 [0.606,1.169]

OR: odds ratio. CI: confidence interval.

Exponentiated coefficients; 95% confidence intervals in brackets

†Models adjusted for all variables in the table

* p<0.05

** p<0.01

*** p<0.001