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. 2018 Oct 3;110(1):44–51. doi: 10.17269/s41997-018-0135-5

Table 2.

Proportion of children who received all recommended vaccine doses at ages 2 and 7 for children not in care and children in care, risk difference, and relative risk (RR) for not receiving all recommended vaccine doses, for children in care versus children not in care

Children not in care
No., % (95% CI)
Children in care
No., % (95% CI)
Risk difference of having full number of vaccine dosesa % (95% CI) RR of not having all vaccine dosesb
RR (95% CI)
Age 2
n = 44,077 n = 129
 DTaP-IPV-Hib (4 doses) 32,724, 74.2% (73.8–74.7) 70, 54.3% (45.7–62.9) 20.0% (11.6–28.6) 1.78 (1.47–2.14)
 Men-C (3 doses) 37,731, 85.6% (85.3–85.9) 96, 74.4% (66.9–81.9) 11.2% (4.4–19.4) 1.78 (1.32–2.39)
 MMR (1 dose) 38,513, 87.4% (87.1–87.7) 105, 81.4% (74.7–88.1) 6.0% (0.2–13.6) 1.47 (1.03–2.12)
Age 7
n = 42,028 n = 213
 DTaP-IPV (5 doses) 32,199, 76.6% (76.2–77.0) 113, 53.1% (46.3–59.8) 23.6% (17.0–30.3) 2.01 (1.74–2.32)
 MMR (2 doses) 35,041, 83.4% (83.0–83.7) 139, 65.3% (58.9–71.7) 18.1% (12.0–24.7) 2.09 (1.74–2.52)

No. number, CI confidence interval, DTaP-IPV-Hib diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Haemophilus influenzae tybe b, Men-C Meningococcal, MMR measles, mumps, rubella, DTaP-IPV diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, RR relative risk

aCalculated as risk of being vaccinated for children not in care minus children in care

bReference group = children not in care; Comparison group = children in care