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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Value Health. 2020 Jun 12;23(7):891–897. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2020.03.012

Table 2.

Equity impact number (θ, in degrees) by country, year, and type (MCV1 vs SIA) of vaccine delivery.*

Country SIA MCV1
MCV1 Mean
DHS/MICS 2 rounds before SIA
DHS/MICS round before SIA
DHS/MICS round during SIA
DHS/MICS round after SIA
DHS/MICS 2 rounds after SIA
(2002–2012) (1993–2003) (1997–2008) (2002–2014) (2006–2014) (2008–2014)

Benin 2.6 NA 5.9 15 13.6 14.5 10.3
Burkina Faso 1.5 0.6 4 12.9 4.9 7.7 5.3
Cameroon ‒7.6 NA 10.8 23.7 NA NA 8.9
Democratic Republic of the Congo 5.6 NA 2.6 18.8 10.4 12.8 10
Ghana (2003) 6.7 ‒3.8 13.5 9.5 12.1 4.4 7.1
Ghana (2008) 5.6 9.5 12.1 4.4 3.3 2.7 6.3
Guinea 9.8 NA 5.3 15.1 13.2 NA 10.9
Guinea-Bissau 3.4 NA 10.3 10.6 NA NA 8.1
Haiti 0.3 NA 15.8 9.6 0.9 NA 6.7
Honduras ‒0.7 NA NA 1.1 1.2 NA 0.5
Indonesia 8.9 NA 10.8 11.3 12.7 12.1 11.2
Iraq 0.9 NA NA 10.1 NA NA 5.5
Kenya 3.3 2.2 ‒3.4 11.7 6.6 7.9 4.7
Lesotho 2.5 NA ‒2.9 3.6 8.7 3.3 3.0
Nepal 0.3 4.7 10.2 11.5 6 8.6 6.9
Niger 5.3 NA ‒2.9 15.4 10.8 NA 7.2
Nigeria 4.0 20.4 20.2 25.5 25.2 27.7 20.5
São Tomé and Príncipe (2008) 4.2 NA NA 3.9 11.6 NA 6.6
São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) ‒0.2 NA 3.9 11.6 NA NA 5.1
Sierra Leone 1.8 NA 8.1 6.1 0.3 1.4 3.5
Vanuatu 5.0 NA NA 14.3 NA NA 9.7
Vietnam 4.0 NA 8.9 5.6 10.0 NA 7.2
Mean (SD) 3.1 (3.7) 5.6 (8.5) 7.4 (6.5) 11.4 (6.2) 8.9 (6.1) 9.4 (7.5) 7.5 (3.9)

DHS indicates Demographic Health Survey; MCV1, routine measles-containing vaccine, first dose; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys; NA, not applicable; SIA, supplementary immunization activities.

*

Two different SIAs were included in the analysis for the countries of Ghana and São Tomé and Príncipe.