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Table 2 Respondent characteristics—household survey

From: Using participatory action research to improve immunization utilization in areas with pockets of unimmunized children in Nigeria

Variables

Caregivers' background characteristics (N = 420)

Baseline (N = 210)

Endline (N = 210)

Ilara (n = 86)

Ipara (n = 124)

Ilara (n = 83)

Ipara (n = 127)

Count

%

Count

%

Count

%

Count

%

Religion

Christianity

74a

86.0%

99a

79.8%

69a

83.1%

104a

81.9%

 

Islam

7a

8.1%

22b

17.7%

10a

12.0%

22a

17.3%

 

Others

5a

5.8%

3a

2.4%

4a

4.8%

1a

0.8%

Ethnicity

Yoruba

75a

87.2%

113a

91.1%

64a

77.1%

113b

89.0%

Others

11a

12.8%

11a

8.9%

19a

22.9%

14b

11.0%

Employed

Yes

16a

18.6%

26a

21.0%

17a

20.5%

24a

18.9%

Highest level of education

None/preschool

22a

25.6%

11b

8.9%

6a

7.2%

7a

5.5%

Primary

31a

36.0%

42a

33.9%

18a

21.7%

26a

20.5%

Secondary

29a

33.7%

61b

49.2%

51a

61.4%

73a

57.5%

Higher

4a

4.7%

10a

8.1%

8a

9.6%

21a

16.5%

Literacy

Cannot read at all

30a

34.9%

39a

31.5%

30a

36.1%

36a

28.3%

Able to read only parts of sentence

21a

24.4%

23a

18.5%

15a

18.1%

27a

21.3%

Able to read whole sentence

32a

37.2%

61a

49.2%

38a

45.8%

64a

50.4%

Other

3a

3.5%

1a

0.8%

01

0.0%

0

0.0%

Age of respondent (years)

 <  = 20

10a

11.6%

8a

6.5%

3a

3.6%

5a

3.9%

21–30

34a

39.5%

50a

40.3%

37a

44.6%

55a

43.3%

31–40

26a

30.2%

53a

42.7%

26a

31.3%

55a

43.3%

41–50

10a

11.6%

10a

8.1%

13a

15.7%

10a

7.9%

 >  = 51

6a

7.0%

3a

2.4%

4a

4.8%

2a

1.6%

Variable

 

Baseline (N = 215)

Endline (N = 213)

  

Ilara (n = 88)

Ipara (n = 127)

Ilara (n = 84)

Ipara (n = 129)

Sex of child

Female

42a

47.7%

61a

48.0%

38a

45.2%

67a

51.9%

Male

46a

52.3%

66a

52.0%

46a

54.8%

62a

48.1%

Age of child (months)

0–11

23a

26.1%

28a

22.0%

21a

25.0%

29a

22.5%

12–23

23a

26.1%

36a

28.3%

21a

25.0%

34a

26.4%

24–59

42a

47.7%

63a

49.6%

42a

50.0%

66a

51.2%

  1. Values in the same row not sharing the same subscript are significantly different at p < 0.05
  2. 1Tests are adjusted for all pairwise comparisons (within a row) using the Bonferroni correction