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Table 1 HPV vaccination initiation according to background characteristics

From: Dynamics of HPV vaccination initiation in Flanders (Belgium) 2007-2009: a Cox regression model

  

Vaccination initiation

N (%)

No vaccination initiation

N (%)

P (chi square)

    

<0.0001

Year of birth

1989

3,081 (20.2)

12,202 (79.8)

 
 

1990

8,400 (53.4)

7,342 (46.6)

 
 

1991

8,270 (53.7)

7,118 (46.3)

 
 

1992

12,227 (81.9)

2,702 (18.1)

 
 

1993

10,758 (74.9)

3,615 (25.2)

 
 

1994

8,959 (65.2)

4,783 (34.8)

 
 

1995

6,690 (47.9)

7,278 (52.1)

 
 

1996

3,166 (23.1)

10,560 (76.9)

 

Preferential treatment

   

<0.0001

 

Yes

1,816 (33.0)

3,692 (67.0)

 
 

No

59,735 (53.5)

51,908 (46.5)

 

Province

   

<0.0001

 

Antwerp

16,369 (53.0)

14,537 (47.0)

 
 

Limburg

8,669 (57.2)

6,488 (42.8)

 
 

East-Flanders

13,466 (50.5)

13,210 (49.5)

 
 

West-Flanders

12,995 (49.0)

13,520 (51.0)

 
 

Flemish Brabant

10,052 (56.2)

7,845 (43.8)

 

Median income neighborhoodA

   

<0.0001

 

Quintile1

7,103 (43.0)

9,404 (57.0)

 
 

Quintile2

11,301 (50.6)

11,019 (49.4)

 
 

Quintile3

12,411 (53.3)

10,868 (46.7)

 
 

Quintile4

14,240 (55.1)

11,598 (44.9)

 
 

Quintile5

16,496 (56.5)

12,711 (43.5)

 
  1. A The quintiles are calculated for the whole of Flanders: each quintile encompasses 20% of all tax declarations in Flanders.