measles: Survey of Parents of Children Non-Immunized against Measles

In SDaA: Sampling: Design and Analysis

Survey of Parents of Children Non-Immunized against Measles

Description

Roberts et al. (1995) report on the results of a survey of parents whose children had not been immunized against measles during a recent campaign to immunize all children in the first five years of secondary school.

Usage

measles

Format

Data frame with 11 variables. A parent who refused consent (variable 4) was asked why, with responses in variables 5-10. A parent could give more than one reason for not having the child immunized.

school

school attended by child

form

parent received consent form

returnf

parent returned consent form

consent

parent gave consent for measles immunization

hadmeas

child had already had measles

previmm

child had been immunized against measles

sideeff

parent concerned about side effects

gp

parent wanted GP (general practitioner) to give vaccine

noshot

child did not want injection

notser

parent thought measles not serious illness

gpadv

GP advised that vaccine was not needed

Note

The original data were unavailable; univariate and multivariate summary statistics from these artificial data, however, are consistent with those in the paper.

Source

Roberts R. J. et al. (1995). Reasons for non-uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella catch up immunisation in a measles epidemic and side effects of the vaccine, British Medical Journal, 310, 1629–1632.

References

Lohr (1999). Sampling: Design and Analysis, Duxbury, p. TODO and 442.

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