2015 LIVING CONDITIONS MONITORING SURVEY
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Zambia, 2015

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Specify the reasons why ... did not receive the POLIO vaccine? (SEC13_15C_S)

Data file: Child Health and Nutrition 2015_ANONYMIZE

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Valid: 67

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Value	Cases
Child was not taken for vaccination.	2	3%
Didn't go to Hospital	1	1.5%
Didn, t have 50 ngwee to pay	1	1.5%
Don't know because the mother is not around	1	1.5%
Has not been taken to health center yet	1	1.5%
He is not yet six months	1	1.5%
He's never been taken to the clinic for the vaccine	1	1.5%
Health workers are yet to come	1	1.5%
Lazziness	1	1.5%
Mother forgot	1	1.5%
Mother not being serious	1	1.5%
Mother said was given but didn't show on the card	1	1.5%
Never took the child to the clinic	1	1.5%
No need	1	1.5%
Not Sure	1	1.5%
Not shown on the card	1	1.5%
Not shown on the under five card	1	1.5%
Not tsken to the clinic	1	1.5%
Not yet taken for this under 5 clinic program	1	1.5%
Religion does not allow	2	3%
She hasn't been taken to the health centre yet.	1	1.5%
She is still under age	1	1.5%
The mother was very sick	1	1.5%
There was no nurse on discharge day	1	1.5%
To be given when taken this month	1	1.5%
Vacated but didn't show on the card	1	1.5%
born from home and not yet taken to the clinic	1	1.5%
child has not been taken to the clinic	1	1.5%
child was never taken to the clinic	1	1.5%
feeling lazy	1	1.5%
haw not yet been taken	1	1.5%
he is one week old	1	1.5%
he was given a vaccine that carters for polio	1	1.5%
its not shown on the card	1	1.5%
just absconded	1	1.5%
mother not being serious	3	4.5%
mother was sick	1	1.5%
mother was told unless the child is one year five that's he receive the polio vaccine	1	1.5%
not indicated on the under five card	1	1.5%
not shown on the card	1	1.5%
not sure why	1	1.5%
not yet	1	1.5%
not yet given because he has not reached the age to be given polio	1	1.5%
not yet gone to clinic, delivered from home	1	1.5%
not yet taken	1	1.5%
only got the dpt vaccine	1	1.5%
respondent not sure if this other vaccines have been administered yet as the baby was under the care of the grandmother	1	1.5%
she didn't take the kids for vaccination she was busy at the market	1	1.5%
she was busy at the market with her business of selling food stuff during the time of vaccination	1	1.5%
thats when is about to	1	1.5%
the child and the mother went to the church meeting	1	1.5%
the health workers havent yet come this year	1	1.5%
the heath plations did not bring the vaccine in the eara	1	1.5%
the household cant afford the demanded fees at the clinic	1	1.5%
the mother did not take him for polio	1	1.5%
the mother is disabled	1	1.5%
the polio service hasnt reached da clinic mother still waiting	1	1.5%
the vaccine has not been administered yet and a proper reason as to why the vaccine has not been given can not be established as the mother of the babies is out of contact	1	1.5%
too many paciants very few nurses at hospital, was not attended to, on a lot of occasions.	1	1.5%
under age	1	1.5%
was born yesterday therfore will go on the due date	1	1.5%
was not told if it was necessary to take it coz opv was administered	1	1.5%
went late sÃ³ told to gÃ¶ on a later date	1	1.5%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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