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Table 3 Agreement of sources: percentage of children reported completely vaccinated* in 1, 2, 3, and 0 sources. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 2005.

From: Impact of methodological "shortcuts" in conducting public health surveys: Results from a vaccination coverage survey

Number of sources independently reporting child completely vaccinated

1 year

2 years

6 years

 

n

%

95%CI

n

%

95%CI

n

%

95%CI

1 Source

58

20.7

15.8, 25.6

54

29.6

23.1, 36.1

74

37.3

30.6, 44.0

   Vaccination Card

7

1.1

0.8, 1.4

7

2.8

0.8, 4.8

9

4.6

1.7, 7.5

   Health Department Record Abstraction

13

2.7

1.3, 4.1

8

3.5

1.1, 5.9

32

16.0

11.1, 20.9

   Vaccination Registry

38

16.9

12.2,21.6

39

23.4

17.3, 29.5

33

16.7

11.6, 21.8

2 Sources

97

45.7

39.2, 52.2

71

37.0

30.3, 43.7

53

27.7

21.4, 34.0

   Vaccination Card and Health Department Record Abstraction

6

1.4

0.2, 2.6

3

1.6

0.0, 3.2

9

5.2

1.9, 8.5

   Vaccination Card and Vaccination Registry

26

11.8

7.5, 16.1

25

17.0

11.3, 22.7

7

3.2

0.8, 5.6

   Health Department Record Abstraction and Vaccination Registry

65

32.5

26.4, 38.6

43

18.5

13.4, 23.6

37

19.2

13.7, 24.7

All 3 Sources

45

23.2

17.7, 28.7

23

10.7

6.6, 14.8

15

8.6

4.7, 12.5

0 Sources

24

10.3

6.6, 14.0

46

22.7

17.0,28.4

51

26.5

20.4, 32.6

   Completely vaccinated only when information from multiple sources was combined

5

2.1

0.3, 3.9

11

5.0

2.1, 7.9

17

9.4

5.5, 13.3

   Not Completely Vaccinated

19

8.3

4.8, 11.8

35

17.6

12.5, 22.7

34

17.0

11.9, 22.1

  1. *Children aged 1 year: received at least 3 doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine (DPT), 3 doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), 2 doses of Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (Hib) and 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine. Children aged 2 years: received at least 4 doses of DPT, 3 doses of IPV, 1 dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR), 3 doses of Hib, and 3 doses of hepatitis B. Children aged 6 years: received at least 5 doses DPT, 4 doses of IPV, 2 doses of MMR, and 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine.