Table 4. Time delays in the receipt of doses of hepatitis B vaccine for children aged 12–60 months across 47 countries.
Percentiles | First dose delay percentiles, weeks |
Third dose delay percentiles, weeks |
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25th | 50th | 75th | 25th | 50th | 75th | ||
25th | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 6.1 | |
50th (median) | 0.3 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 1.4 | 3.7 | 9.3 | |
75th | 0.6 | 2.0 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 5.7 | 13.2 |
Notes: Total number of children (weighted counts) were 108 626 (first dose) and 101 542 (third dose). Data were extracted from the most recent demographic and health survey in each country (survey year range: 2005–2014). Delayed vaccination was a vaccine dose received more than 4 weeks after the target week in the national vaccination schedule.