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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2019 Jun 22;37(31):4281–4290. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.06.041

Table 1.

Time intervals used for classifying timeliness of vaccine doses received by surveyed children, using the nationally recommended ages for vaccination, Timor Leste, 2016.1

Vaccine Scheduled age of vaccination Too early Timely Late
Birth dose
BCG2 Birth - 0–30 days 30–365 days
OPV3 0–14 days 14–365 days
First dose 6 weeks
(42 days)		 <42 days 42–56 days ≥57 days
OPV3
Pentavalent vaccine4
Second dose 10 weeks
(70 days)		 <70 days 70–84 days ≥85 days
OPV3
Pentavalent vaccine4
Third dose 14 weeks
(98 days)		 <98 days 98–112 days ≥113 days
OPV3
Pentavalent vaccine4
MR15 9 months
(270 days)		 <270 days 270–365 days ≥366 days
1

The table does not comprehensively include all vaccines listed in the national immunization schedule for children <24 months; newly introduced vaccines (as of 2016) were excluded (hepatitis B birth dose, inactivated polio vaccine, measles and rubella vaccine second dose, and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine fourth dose).

2

Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.

3

Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV).

4

Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis-hepatitis B-Haemophilus influenzae type b (pentavalent) vaccine.

5

Measles and rubella vaccine first dose (MR1).