Table 2.
Using vaccination card plus maternal recall, vaccination coverage among children age 9–59 months and association with mobility status using univariate and multivariable models with modified Poisson regression
| Partial vaccination | Full vaccination* | PR† | 95% CI | P value | |||
| n=1465 (17%) | n=7043 (83%) | ||||||
| Univariate analyses | |||||||
| Mobility status | n | % | n | % | |||
| Residentially stable >24 months | 706 | 15 | 4007 | 85 | Reference | ||
| Recently relocated <12 months | 759 | 20 | 3036 | 80 | 0.94 | 0.91 to 0.97 | <0.001 |
| Demographics | mean | SE | mean | SE | |||
| Number of children <5 years in household | 1.31 | 0.02 | 1.25 | 0.01 | 0.96 | 0.93 to 0.98 | 0.002 |
| Age of index child in months | 32.0 | 0.44 | 34.2 | 0.16 | 1.002 | 1.001 to 1.003 | <0.001 |
| Socioeconomics | |||||||
| Mother’s education | n | % | n | % | |||
| No education | 629 | 31 | 1377 | 69 | Reference | ||
| Some schooling | 401 | 21 | 1540 | 79 | 1.16 | 1.10 to 1.21 | <0.001 |
| Finished secondary | 323 | 11 | 2513 | 89 | 1.29 | 1.23 to 1.36 | <0.001 |
| >Higher secondary | 112 | 6 | 1613 | 94 | 1.36 | 1.30 to 1.43 | <0.001 |
| Occupation of household head | |||||||
| Unemployed or other | 106 | 17 | 505 | 83 | Reference | ||
| Daily labour | 524 | 29 | 1283 | 71 | 0.86 | 0.82 to 0.90 | <0.001 |
| Shopkeeper or merchant | 348 | 14 | 2084 | 86 | 1.04 | 0.99 to 1.08 | 0.112 |
| Salaried service | 487 | 13 | 3171 | 87 | 1.05 | 1.01 to 1.09 | 0.029 |
| Household wealth status (PCA‡) | |||||||
| Lowest | 596 | 32 | 1290 | 68 | Reference | ||
| Second | 334 | 20 | 1298 | 80 | 1.16 | 1.09 to 1.24 | <0.001 |
| Third | 242 | 15 | 1348 | 85 | 1.24 | 1.16 to 1.32 | <0.001 |
| Fourth | 193 | 9 | 2043 | 91 | 1.34 | 1.25 to 1.42 | <0.001 |
| Highest | 100 | 9 | 1064 | 91 | 1.34 | 1.25 to 1.43 | <0.001 |
| Health services knowledge | |||||||
| Does not have knowledge of local hospital | 354 | 23 | 1218 | 77 | Reference | ||
| Has knowledge of local hospital | 1111 | 16 | 5825 | 84 | 1.08 | 1.05 to 1.12 | <0.001 |
| Multivariable analyses with different models | |||||||
| Mobility, adjusting for demographics (# of children and age of index child) | 0.94 | 0.92 to 0.97 | <0.001 | ||||
| Mobility, adjusting for socioeconomics (education, occupation and wealth) | 0.97 | 0.95 to 0.99 | 0.009 | ||||
| Mobility, adjusting for demographics and socioeconomics | 0.97 | 0.95 to 0.99 | 0.016 | ||||
*Full vaccination coverage per Expanded Programme on Immunisation includes one dose of BCG, three doses of polio, three doses of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus and one dose of measles vaccines.
†PR, Prevalence Ratio.
‡Polychoric Principal Components Analysis was used to create a household wealth index including structural housing characteristics, cooking fuel, drinking water and sanitation.