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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: ‘I know it has worked for millions of years’: the role of the ‘natural’ in parental reasoning against child immunization in a qualitative study in Switzerland

Characteristics

Total

 
 

n

%

mean

Interviewee(s)

   

Mother

28

88

 

Father

1

3

 

Both parents

3

9

 

Mean age in years

   

Mother

  

37

Father

  

40

Highest education of mother

   

Obligatory education completed

0

0

 

Secondary education completed

22

69

 

University degree

10

31

 

Highest education of father

   

Obligatory education completed

6

19

 

Secondary education completed

14

44

 

University degree

12

38

 

Monthly household income

   

<5,000 Swiss francs

5

16

 

5-10,000 Swiss francs

24

75

 

>10,000 Swiss francs

3

9

 

Number of children

   

1

9

28

 

2

14

44

 

3

7

22

 

≥4

2

6

 

Child immunization status

   

Fully immunized

0

0

 

Not yet vaccinated

7

22

 

Partially immunized

16

50

 

Not immunized

9

28