Table 1. Characteristics of 154 STOP Program consultants in the World Health Organization’s African Region who responded to a survey on the effects of COVID-19 on vaccine-preventable disease surveillance systems, 2020*.

Characteristics	Value†
Number of countries with STOP respondents	27 (57)
Median number of STOP respondents per country (IQR)	4 (2–8)
STOP consultant administrative level of assignment‡
National	30 (19)
Provincial	53 (34)
District	64 (42)
Local	7 (5)
STOP consultant role
Field epidemiologist	107 (70)
Communication specialists	26 (17)
Data manager	21 (14)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. IQR, interquartile range.

†Percentages may not equal 100% because of rounding.

‡Deployment location at time of survey response.