Table 2.
Prevalence and associated background characteristics of incomplete childhood vaccination among children aged 12-23 months in Nigeria, Nigeria demographic and health survey 2018 (n=5834)
| Variables | Vaccination status |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Completely vaccinated, n (%) | Incompletely vaccinated, n (%) | ||
| All children | 1772 (30.4) | 4062 (69.6) | |
| Individual level variable | |||
| Maternal age | |||
| 15-24 | 379 (28.3) | 960 (71.6) | 0.014 |
| 25-34 | 914 (30.2) | 2110 (69.8) | |
| ≥35 | 479 (32.6) | 992 (67.4) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Never married | 111 (32.6) | 230 (67.4) | 0.340 |
| Ever married | 1661 (30.2) | 3832 (69.2) | |
| Maternal education | |||
| No education | 617 (24.6) | 1893 (75.4) | <0.001 |
| Primary | 266 (29.0) | 650 (71.0) | |
| Secondary and tertiary | 889 (36.9) | 1519 (63.1) | |
| Maternal occupation | |||
| Not working | 453 (24.4) | 1406 (75.6) | <0.001 |
| Working | 1319 (33.2) | 2656 (66.8) | |
| Wealth index | |||
| Poor | 642 (24.9) | 1934 (75.1) | <0.001 |
| Middle | 355 (28.3) | 899 (71.7) | |
| Rich | 775 (38.7) | 1229 (61.3) | |
| Place of delivery | |||
| Home | 824 (24.3) | 2574 (75.7) | <0.001 |
| Health facility | 944 (38.8) | 1488 (61.2) | |
| Antenatal clinic attendance | |||
| Never attended | 196 (8.8) | 2027 (91.2) | <0.001 |
| Attended | 1221 (33.8) | 2390 (66.2) | |
| Sex of the child | |||
| Male | 919 (31.4) | 2010 (68.6) | 0.095 |
| Female | 853 (29.4) | 2052 (70.6) | |
| Exposure to media | |||
| Not exposed | 728 (26.2) | 2050 (73.8) | <0.001 |
| Exposed | 1004 (34.2) | 2012 (65.8) | |
| Size at birth** | |||
| Large (≥3.5 kg) | 677 (34.4) | 1298 (65.6) | <0.001 |
| Average (2.5 kg-3.4 kg) | 898 (29.5) | 2148 (70.5) | |
| Small (≤2.4 kg) | 197 (24.0) | 625 (76.0) | |
| Birth order | |||
| 1st-3rd | 1028 (33.3) | 2055 (66.7) | <0.001 |
| 4th-6th | 522 (27.8) | 1356 (72.2) | |
| 7th + | 222 (25.4) | 651 (74.6) | |
| Community level variables | |||
| Residence | |||
| Rural | 955 (26) | 2720 (76) | <0.001 |
| Urban | 683 (31.6) | 1476 (68.4) | |
| Getting to health facility | |||
| Not a big problem | 1345 (32.7) | 2763 (67.3) | <0.001 |
| Big problem | 427 (24.7) | 1299 (75.3) | |
| Geographic region | |||
| South West | 282(43.0) | 374(57.0) | <0.001 |
| South East | 409(57.0) | 308(43.0) | |
| South South | 229(41.5) | 323(58.5) | |
| North East | 297(23.9) | 947(67.1) | |
| North West | 314(19.1) | 1330(80.9) | |
| North Central | 354 (34.7) | 667 (65.3) | |
**Estimate of birth weight by mothers, exact birth weight not available in NDHS. NDHS: Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey