Table 1 Socio-demographic, maternal and child and community level characteristics of children aged 12–35 months in Ghana.
Variables | Response | Vaccination status | Total (N,%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not fully vaccinated (n, %) | Fully vaccinated (n, %) | |||
Maternal education | No education | 227 (58.2) | 163 (41.79) | 390 (21.39) |
Primary | 141 (48.45) | 150 (51.55) | 291 (15.96) | |
Secondary | 397 (40.6) | 580 (59.4) | 977 (53.59) | |
Higher | 30 (18.18) | 135 (81.81) | 164 (9.05) | |
Maternal age | < 20 years | 37 (40.66) | 54 (59.34) | 91 (4.9) |
20–34 years | 567 (44.26) | 714 (55.73) | 1281 (70.27) | |
35–49 years | 189 (41.90) | 262 (58.09) | 451 (24.74) | |
Marital status | Married | 479 (43.50) | 622 (56.49) | 1101 (60.39) |
Other | 315 (43.63) | 407 (56.37) | 722 (39.60) | |
Husband education | No education | 200 (56.82) | 152 (43.18) | 352 (23.43) |
Primary | 63 (40.13) | 94 (59.87) | 157 (10.45) | |
Secondary | 331(42.33) | 451 (57.67) | 782 (52.06) | |
Higher | 56 (26.54) | 155 (73.46) | 211 (14.05) | |
Child sex | Male | 419 (45.29) | 508 (54.7) | 928 (50.9) |
Female | 375 (41.85) | 521 (58.15) | 896 (49.26) | |
Birth order | First | 206 (39.46) | 316 (60.54) | 522 (28.63) |
Second-third | 153 (39.43) | 235 (60.57) | 388 (21.28) | |
Fourth and above | 435 (47.65) | 478 (52.35) | 913 (50.08) | |
Sex of household head | Male | 574 (45.59) | 685 (54.4) | 1259 (69.06) |
Female | 220 (39.00) | 344 (60.99) | 564 (30.93) | |
Wealth index | Poor | 438 (53.15) | 386 (46.84) | 824 (45.2) |
Middle | 162 (42.97) | 215 (57.03) | 377 (20.68) | |
Rich | 195 (31.35) | 427 (68.65) | 622 (34.12) | |
ANC visit | Optimal | 255 (36.27) | 448 (63.72) | 703 (40.54) |
Non-optimal | 494 (47.91) | 537 (52.08) | 1031 (59.46) | |
PNC check | Yes | 391 (42.4) | 531 (57.59) | 922 (53.17) |
No | 358 (44.08) | 454 (55.91) | 812 (46.83) | |
Mother working | Yes | 640 (43.63) | 827 (56.37) | 1467 (80.47) |
No | 154 (43.23) | 202 (56.75) | 356 (19.53) | |
Place of delivery | Home | 158 (61.96) | 97 (38.04) | 255 (13.99) |
Health facility | 637 (40.56) | 932 (59.44) | 1568 (86.01) | |
Number of under five | ≤ 2 | 344 (38.65) | 546 (61.35) | 890 (48.82) |
≥ 3 | 450 (48.23) | 483 (51.77) | 933 (51.18) | |
Media exposure | Yes | 617 (40.8) | 896 (59.22) | 1513 (82.99) |
No | 177 (57.09) | 133 (42.9) | 310 (17.00) | |
Women involved in decision | Yes | 464 (41.2) | 662 (58.79) | 1126 (74.96) |
No | 186 (49.47) | 190 (50.53) | 376 (25.03) | |
Community level variables | ||||
Residence | Urban | 315 (36.7) | 543 (63.28) | 858 (47.06) |
Rural | 479 (49.63) | 486 (50.36) | 965 (52.93) | |
Distance difficulty | Big problem | 231 (50.1) | 230 (49.89) | 461 (25.28) |
Not problem | 563 (41.33) | 799 (58.67) | 1362 (74.72) | |
Community media exposure | Low | 326 (57.29) | 243 (51.81) | 569 (31.21) |
High | 468 (37.32) | 786 (62.68) | 1254 (68.78) | |
Community women illiteracy | High | 498 (37.27) | 838 (62.72) | 1336 (75.14) |
Low | 276 (62.44) | 166 (37.56) | 442 (26.86) | |
Community poverty level | High | 389 (35.85) | 696 (64.18) | 1085 (59.51) |
Low | 405 (54.88) | 333 (45.12) | 738 (40.48) | |
Community ANC use | Low | 457 (50.33) | 453 (48.89) | 908 (49.81) |
High | 336 (36.92) | 577 (63.4) | 910 (50.19) | |
Region | Western | 65 (57.52) | 48 (42.48) | 113 (6.2) |
Central | 86 (44.56) | 106 (54.92) | 193 (10.59) | |
Greater accra | 58 (28.02) | 149 (71.98) | 207 (11.35) | |
Volta | 22 (29.33) | 53 (70.66) | 75 (4.11) | |
Eastern | 44 (38.26) | 71 (61.74) | 115 (6.3) | |
Ashanti | 130 (36.21) | 229 (63.79) | 359 (16.69) | |
Western north | 19 (37.25) | 32 (62.74) | 51 (2.8) | |
Ahafo | 17 (45.94) | 20 (54.05) | 37 (2.02) | |
Bono | 22 (34.37) | 42 (65.62) | 64 (3.4) | |
Bono east | 47 (44.34) | 59 (55.66) | 106 (5.8) | |
Oti | 26 (46.43) | 30 (53.57) | 56 (3.07) | |
Northern | 138 (68.65) | 63 (31.34) | 201 (11.03) | |
Savannah | 29 (0.58) | 21 (42) | 50 (2.74) | |
North east | 25 (47.17) | 28 (52.8) | 53 (2.9) | |
Upper east | 39 (44.83) | 48 (55.17) | 87 (4.77) | |
Upper west | 25 (43.1) | 33 (56.89) | 58 (3.18) | |
