Demographic and Health Survey 2009-10 - Timor-Leste Ministry of ...

In the TLDHS, information on vaccination coverage was obtained in two ways—from health
cards (LISIO) and from mother’s verbal reports. All mothers were asked to show the interviewer the
health cards on which the child’s immunizations are recorded. If the card was available, the
interviewer copied the dates of each vaccination received. If a vaccination was not recorded on the
card, the mother was asked to recall whether that particular vaccination had been given. If the mother
was not able to present a card for a child, she was asked to recall whether the child had received BCG,
polio, DPT-HepB, and measles vaccinations. If she recalled that the child had received the polio or
DPT-HepB vaccines, she was asked about the number of doses that the child received.
The data presented here are for children age 12-23 months, the youngest cohort of children
who have reached the age by which they should be fully vaccinated, and are restricted to children who
were alive at the time of the survey. Table 11.2 shows the percentage of children age 12-23 months
who received specific vaccines at any time before the survey by source of information. Fifty-three
percent of Timorese children age 12-23 months are fully immunized, and 23 percent received no
vaccinations (Figure 11.1). Forty-seven percent of children age 12-23 months are fully vaccinated by
12 months of age.
Table 11.2 Vaccinations by source of information
Percentage of children age 12-23 months who received specific vaccines at any time before the survey, by source of information (vaccination card or mother’s report), and
percentage vaccinated by 12 months of age, Timor-Leste 2009-10
Source of information BCG
DPT Polio 1
Hepatitis B
1 2 3 0 1 2 3 1 2 3
Measles
All basic
vaccinations
2
No
vaccinations
Vaccinated at any
time before survey
Vaccination card 49.4 49.0 47.8 47.0 47.7 49.1 47.9 47.0 49.0 47.6 46.8 44.6 44.4 0.0 870
Mother’s report 27.3 26.1 23.5 19.4 17.6 25.7 21.4 9.1 25.7 22.6 18.9 23.2 8.2 22.6 882
Either source
Vaccinated by
76.7 75.1 71.3 66.4 65.3 74.9 69.3 56.2 74.6 70.3 65.7 67.8 52.6 22.7 1,752
12 months of age 3
76.6 74.2 69.9 64.2 65.2 74.0 68.1 54.4 73.7 69.0 62.9 60.0 47.2 23.1 1,752
Number
of
children
1 Polio 0 is the polio vaccination given at birth.
2 BCG, measles and three doses each of DPT and polio vaccine (excluding polio vaccine given at birth)
3 For children whose information was based on the mother’s report, the proportion of vaccinations given during the first year of life was assumed to be the same as for
children with a written record of vaccination.
100
80
60
40
20
0
Figure 11.1 Immunization Coverage of Children
12-23 Months
Percent of children 12-23 months
62
77
66
51 48
56
40
68
53
18 18
BCG DPT3 Polio3 Measles All
vaccinations
DHS 2003 TLDHS 2009-10
23
No
vaccinations
Timor-Leste 2009-10
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