measles {SDAResources}

measles data

Description

Roberts et al. (1995) reported 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. The original data were unavailable; univariate and multivariate summary statistics from these artificial data, however, are consistent with those in the paper. All variables are coded as 1 for yes, 0 for no, and NA for no answer. A parent who refused consent (variable 4) was asked why, with responses in variables 5 through 10. If a response in variables 5 through 10 was checked, it was assigned value 1; otherwise, it was assigned value 0. A parent could give more than one reason for not having the child immunized.

Usage

data(measles)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

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 general practitioner (GP) to give vaccine

noshot:

child did not want injection

notser:

parent thought measles not a serious illness

gpadv:

GP advised that vaccine was not needed

school:

school attended by child

Mitotal:

population size in school

mi:

sample size in school

References

Roberts 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.

Lohr (2021), Sampling: Design and Analysis, 3rd Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Lu and Lohr (2021), R Companion for Sampling: Design and Analysis, 3rd Edition, 1st Edition. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.