Hepatitis B vaccination coverage across India: exploring the spatial heterogeneity and contextual determinants

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Table 3 Hepatitis B vaccination coverage by socio-demographic characteristics; India, Gujarat^d and Punjab^e, NFHS, 2015–16

Background characteristics	India		Gujarat		Punjab
Background characteristics	Hep-B (%)	No. of Children	Hep-B (%)	No. of Children	Hep-B (%)	No. of Children
Child’s age in months
12–23	63	48,928	39	1397	91	1018
24–35	59	48,517	33	1387	92	1013
36–47	53	50,697	30	1614	92	979
48–59	47	48,512	26	1487	90	1042
Birth order
1	60	73,998	36	2423	93	1961
2_3	55	93,620	30	2843	91	1889
4–5	46	24,051	23	592	76	214
6+	38	8220	14	124	45	30
Sex of the child
Male	55	1,03,622	32	3090	91	2177
Female	55	96,267	31	2892	91	1917
Child lives with whom
Respondent	55	1,97,975	31	5929	91	4056
Lives elsewhere	36	1914	16	53	62	38
Mother’s education
No education	45	63,097	21	1512	81	688
Primary or less	54	29,394	29	993	89	509
Secondary or less	61	89,255	35	3014	93	2258
Higher Education	64	18,143	41	463	96	639
Caste
SC^a	57	37,351	30	659	91	1787
ST^b	51	40,044	31	1503	NA	NA
Others	55	1,14,708	31	3723	91	2298
Religion
Hindu	56	1,43,834	31	5316	88	1420
Muslim	50	31,616	31	591	71	115
Christian	56	16,439	58	65	87	35
Others*	73	8000	NA	NA	94	2524
Wealth quintiles^c
Poorest	47	52,266	17	878	72	44
Poorer	54	46,882	25	1337	83	185
Middle	58	39,965	29	1441	86	582
Richer	60	33,529	37	1231	87	985
Richest	64	27,247	40	1095	95	2298
Place of Residence
Urban	58	48,257	34	2003	89	1477
Rural	54	151,632	29	3979	93	2617
Place of Vaccination
Public	60	1,68,491	35	4683	92	3608
Private	56	14,434	37	623	93	422
Year of birth
2010	44	15,030	26	1008	90	775
2011	48	40,212	28	1598	90	1014
2012	55	50,909	30	1492	93	1029
2013	61	49,569	39	1396	92	993
2014	63	34,656	35	488	87	281
2015	58	9446
Region
North	58	37,737
Central	47	56,634
East	63	41,587
North East	50	29,179
West	46	14,328
South	61	20,424

NA denotes not enough sample (less than 30); ^aScheduled caste; ^bScheduled tribe; ^cwealth quintiles denote five different economic classes of India
^dState with lowest hep-B vaccination coverage; ^eState with highest hep-B vaccination coverage;
* Denotes the other religious groups like Sikh, Buddhist/Neo-Buddhist, Jain, Jewish, Parsi/Zoroastrian & No religion

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