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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.