1	AT THIS VISIT, your child’s doctor STARTED to talk about the plan for shots by TELLING you which shots your child would be getting without asking your opinion. For example, if your child’s doctor FIRST started to talk about the plan for shots by saying something like “Well, we have to do some shots.” or “He’s due for DTaP, Hib and IPV today.”, choose this response. He or she simply told you what the plan was and didn’t ask you how you felt about that plan.
2	AT THIS VISIT, your child’s doctor STARTED to talk about the plan for shots by TELLING you which shots your child would be getting and then ASKING your opinion about that shot plan. For example, if your child’s doctor FIRST started to talk about the plan for shots by saying something like “So, he’s due for three shots today. Is that OK with you?”, choose this response. In this instance, he or she told you what the plan was but then asked you what you thought about it.
3	AT THIS VISIT, your child’s doctor STARTED to talk about the plan for shots by ASKING you what you wanted to do about shots. For example, if your child’s doctor FIRST started to talk about the plan for shots by saying something like “How do you feel about shots?” or “Are we going to do shots today?”, choose this response.
4	You don’t remember how your child’s doctor started talking about shots AT THIS VISIT.
5	Your child didn’t need any shots AT THIS VISIT.
6	None of the above. [interviewer write verbatim what parent said] For example, if you started to talk about the plan for shots first BEFORE your child’s doctor did, such as by saying “So we wanted to just do a few shots today” or “We’re going on vacation tomorrow so I think I would like to get all the vaccines today”, you would choose this response.

Footnote: Responses 1 and 2 were coded as presumptive formats, response 3 as participatory format, and response 6 as ‘other’ format. Responses 4 and 5 were excluded as missing data.