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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 6.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2016 Jul 8;34(36):4298–4303. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.06.083

Table 3.

Characteristics of hepatitis B serosurvey participants in the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, and Tokelau.

Cook Islands, 2012 Kiribati, 2014 Niue, 2015 Tokelau, 2014
n N % n N Weighted% n N % n N %
Participation 269 314 86 1249 1293 96 (94–99) 183 216 85 171 171 100
Gradea
 Early Childhood Education (ECE) 22 30 73
 1 1249 1249 100 24 30 80 22 22 100
 2 269 269 100 29 34 85 27 27 100
 3 28 32 88 30 30 100
 4 30 30 100 23 23 100
 5 22 29 76 39 39 100
 6 28 31 90 29 29 100
Male 149 269 55 664 1288 51 (48–54) 98 171 57
Born in country 241 265 91 1285 1293 99 (99–100) 59 171 35
Ethnicity
 Maori/Polynesian 252 257 98 163 171 95
 Caucasian 5 257 2
 Melanesian 0 257 0 1 171 1
 Mixed 7 171 4
Vaccination data available for review 258 269 96 104 1293 9 (3–16) 17 183 9 171 171 100
 Any Birth Dose (HepB-BD)b 249 258 97 162 171 95
 Received HepB-BD ⩽24 h 245 258 95 73 95 77
 Received 3+ doses of hepatitis B 258 258 100 171 171 100
HBsAg+ 0 269 0 39 1249 3.3 (2.4–4.6) 0 183 0 0 171 0
a

Tokelau: 1 child home schooled but included in survey.

b

Any birth dose is defined as a dose within 41 days of life (Cook Islands) or marked on vaccination card as ‘birth dose’ but no date provided (Tokelau).