Table 2.
Summary of included secondary analyses
Variables | Group | Total (N = 116) | |
---|---|---|---|
N | % | ||
Publication metric | |||
Publish time period | 2006–2011 | 26 | 22.4 |
2012- August 2018 | 90 | 77.6 | |
Country of affiliationsa | High income | 80 | 68.9 |
Low-middle income | 36 | 31.0 | |
Country analyzed | Multiple countries | 37 | 31.9 |
Single country | 79 | 68.1 | |
Affiliations match with survey countriesb | Yes | 38 | 48.1 |
No | 41 | 51.9 | |
Survey year (last year) | before 2011 | 84 | 72.4 |
2012–2018 | 32 | 27.6 | |
Publication delay | Mean (SD) | 5.4 (2.6) | |
Within 5 years | 66 | 56.9 | |
More than 5 years | 50 | 43.1 | |
Analyses content | |||
Survey types | DHS | 100 | 86.2 |
MICS | 7 | 6.0 | |
Both | 9 | 7.8 | |
Outcomes | Specific immunization | 55 | 41.7 |
Complete/full immunization | 53 | 40.2 | |
Partial or incomplete immunization | 12 | 9.4 | |
Never vaccinated | 11 | 8.3 | |
Otherc | 1 | 0.8 | |
Type of analysis | Factors associated | 77 | 55.4 |
Inequalities | 21 | 15.1 | |
Timeliness | 12 | 8.6 | |
Trends | 16 | 11.5 | |
Others | 13 | 9.4 | |
Proxies for “quality” | |||
How persons without documented vaccination were handled | Caregiver recall used | 86 | 74.1 |
Recall excluded | 12 | 10.3 | |
Not mentioned | 17 | 14.6 | |
From other sourcesd | 1 | 0.9 | |
Percentage of documented vaccination seen | Mentioned | 36 | 31.0 |
No mentioned | 80 | 69.0 | |
Weighted analysis | Yes | 67 | 57.8 |
No | 4 | 3.4 | |
Not mentioned | 45 | 38.8 | |
Potential survey biases | Listed | 54 | 46.6 |
Not listed | 62 | 53.4 | |
Limitation(s) of secondary analyses | Listed | 89 | 76.7 |
Not listed | 27 | 23.3 |
aThe affiliations of first and corresponding authors separately counted; most of them (110/116) were from the same affiliation or income-level country. For those with first and corresponding author had a different affiliation (6/116), the higher income-level was used for classification
bOnly secondary analyses using survey data from single country are included here (i.e., multi-country analyses exclude from this row)
cThe one outcome listed as “other” was on knowledge about Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine
dInformation from administrative activities (e.g., vaccination records kept by health facilities), censuses, and vital registration systems was referred