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

Table 2 Respondent characteristics—household survey

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	74_a	86.0%	99_a	79.8%	69_a	83.1%	104_a	81.9%
	Islam	7_a	8.1%	22_b	17.7%	10_a	12.0%	22_a	17.3%
	Others	5_a	5.8%	3_a	2.4%	4_a	4.8%	1_a	0.8%
Ethnicity	Yoruba	75_a	87.2%	113_a	91.1%	64_a	77.1%	113_b	89.0%
Ethnicity	Others	11_a	12.8%	11_a	8.9%	19_a	22.9%	14_b	11.0%
Employed	Yes	16_a	18.6%	26_a	21.0%	17_a	20.5%	24_a	18.9%
Highest level of education	None/preschool	22_a	25.6%	11_b	8.9%	6_a	7.2%	7_a	5.5%
	Primary	31_a	36.0%	42_a	33.9%	18_a	21.7%	26_a	20.5%
	Secondary	29_a	33.7%	61_b	49.2%	51_a	61.4%	73_a	57.5%
	Higher	4_a	4.7%	10_a	8.1%	8_a	9.6%	21_a	16.5%
Literacy	Cannot read at all	30_a	34.9%	39_a	31.5%	30_a	36.1%	36_a	28.3%
	Able to read only parts of sentence	21_a	24.4%	23_a	18.5%	15_a	18.1%	27_a	21.3%
	Able to read whole sentence	32_a	37.2%	61_a	49.2%	38_a	45.8%	64_a	50.4%
	Other	3_a	3.5%	1_a	0.8%	0¹	0.0%	0	0.0%
Age of respondent (years)	< = 20	10_a	11.6%	8_a	6.5%	3_a	3.6%	5_a	3.9%
	21–30	34_a	39.5%	50_a	40.3%	37_a	44.6%	55_a	43.3%
	31–40	26_a	30.2%	53_a	42.7%	26_a	31.3%	55_a	43.3%
	41–50	10_a	11.6%	10_a	8.1%	13_a	15.7%	10_a	7.9%
	> = 51	6_a	7.0%	3_a	2.4%	4_a	4.8%	2_a	1.6%

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

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