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. 2021 Jun 15;9(7):e989–e998. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00165-0

Table 3.

Demographic features of cases of vaccine-eligible-age all-serotype invasive pneumococcal disease and age-matched and community-matched controls

Cases (N=34) Controls (N=136) p value*
Sex .. .. 0·22
Male 23 (68%) 69 (51%) ..
Female 11 (32%) 67 (49%) ..
Median age, months (IQR) 8·7 (5·6–18·6) 8·4 (5·3–18·9) 0·96
Vaccine record observed 33 (97%) 132 (97%) 0·065
Mean household occupants (SD) 4·3 (1·5) 4·3 (1·4) 0·99
Mean maternal age, years (SD) 25·6 (5·8) 26·5 (6·4) 0·53
Mother deceased 1 (3%) 0 0·21
Father deceased 0 1 (1%) 0·79
Z-score
Weight for age −1·5 0·1 <0·0001
Height for age −0·3 −0·5 0·66
Weight for height −1·8 0·6 <0·0001
Number of pneumcoccal conjugate vaccine doses received
0 6 (18%) 25 (18%) ..
1 6 (18%) 11 (8%) ..
2 5 (15%) 15 (11%) ..
3 17 (50%) 85 (63%) ..

Data are n (%), unless otherwise specified.

*

χ2 test (Mantel-Haenszel χ2 where stratified) used for categorical covariates, unless fewer than five observations, where Fisher's exact test used. t test of means and rank-sum test of medians used for continuous covariates.