Malawi 2015-16

Table 10.2 Vaccinations by source of information
Percentage of children age 12-23 months and children age 24-35 months who received specific vaccines at any time before the survey,
by source of information (vaccination card or mother’s report), and percentage who received specific vaccines by the appropriate age,
Malawi DHS 2015-16
Vaccine
Children age 12-23 months
Vaccinated at any time before the
survey according to:
Vaccination
card 1
Mother’s
report
Either
source
Vaccinated
by
appropriate
age 2,3
Children age 24-35 months
Vaccinated at any time before the
survey according to:
Vaccination
card 1
Mother’s
report
Either
source
Vaccinated
by
appropriate
age 3,4
BCG 78.2 19.4 97.6 97.0 65.3 31.6 96.9 95.0
DPT-HepB-Hib
1 78.5 18.9 97.4 97.2 65.6 31.5 97.1 95.3
2 78.1 18.3 96.4 95.7 65.4 30.6 96.0 93.5
3 76.7 16.3 93.0 91.9 64.5 26.9 91.4 88.1
Polio
0 (birth dose) 55.4 16.7 72.1 72.0 49.5 24.7 74.2 73.2
1 78.3 18.6 96.9 96.6 65.8 30.4 96.2 94.5
2 77.4 16.8 94.2 93.2 65.1 27.6 92.7 90.6
3 73.9 7.3 81.2 79.7 62.0 13.5 75.5 72.4
Pneumococcal
1 78.0 18.4 96.4 96.0 64.9 30.6 95.5 93.8
2 77.4 16.8 94.2 93.4 64.7 28.1 92.9 90.7
3 75.0 14.2 89.2 88.1 63.2 24.2 87.4 84.1
Rotavirus
1 76.4 18.4 94.8 94.2 63.5 30.0 93.6 91.8
2 74.5 16.8 91.4 90.2 62.0 27.5 89.5 86.9
Measles
1 73.2 18.1 91.3 85.5 62.7 30.7 93.4 82.8
2 na na na na 9.8 7.9 17.7 15.3
All basic vaccinations 5 69.0 6.8 75.8 70.0 58.7 12.6 71.3 61.1
All age appropriate
vaccinations 6 47.1 4.3 51.4 47.7 8.2 2.1 10.4 6.7
No vaccinations 0.2 1.4 1.6 na 0.3 1.8 2.2 na
Number of children 2,548 682 3,230 3,230 2,163 1,098 3,261 3,261
na = Not applicable.
BCG = Bacille Calmette-Guérin.
DPT = Diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus.
HepB = Hepatitis B.
Hib = Haemophilus influenzae type b.
1
Vaccination card, booklet or other home-based record.
2
Received by age 12 months.
3
For children whose vaccination information is based on the mother’s report, date of vaccination is not collected. The proportions of
vaccinations given during the first and second years of life are assumed to be the same as for children with a written record of vaccination.
4
Received by age 12 months for all vaccines except measles vaccine 2, which should be received by age 24 months.
5
BCG, three doses of DPT-HepB-Hib, three doses of oral polio vaccine (excluding polio vaccine given at birth), and one dose of measles
vaccine.
6
For children 12-23 months: BCG, three doses of DPT-HepB-HiB, four doses of oral polio vaccine, three doses of pneumococcal vaccine,
two doses of rotavirus vaccine, and one dose of measles. For children 24-35 months, all of these plus a second dose of measles.
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