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. 2020 Jan 16;38(3):562–569. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.10.059

Table 1.

Indicators used for the analysis.

Indicator Definition
Dependent variable
Stockout The existence of any zero-stock event in one or multiple vaccination session in a vaccine-facility-month.



Independent variables
Intervention pre/post Each observation is tagged as occurring either pre- or post-intervention roll-out.
Type of vaccine Each observation involves a single vaccine commodity- (e.g. BCG vaccine)- known as a ‘Material’- thus vaccine-specific analyses and comparisons are possible.
Tenure using digital system Each post-intervention stock event is tagged not only with the date of the transaction, but also the # immunization-days passed between intervention roll-out and that specific transaction. Thus analyses looking at improvements over time since roll-out are possible.