| dc.description.abstract | This project paper highlights the effect of mother's education on the uptake of the
vaccination antigens in Kenya, using the 1998 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey.
The survey was conducted by the National Council for Population and Development
(NCPD) in collaboration with the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and the Institute of
Research Development (IRD).
The main objective of the study who to determine the influence of mother's education on
the uptake of complete vaccination among children born in Kenya, three years preceding
the survey. The study was also to establish the variability in the uptake of the individual
vaccines; by mothers education and by the other co-varieties included in the analysis
namely:- age, type of place of resistance (urban/rural), marital status of mother,
household economic status, region of residence, birth order.
The two main methods of data analysis that are used are cross tabulations and logistic
regression.
The study f as revealed that education influences the uptake of individual vaccine uptake
as well as the complete vaccination. The uptake of the antigens, BCG, Oral polio, Polio
1,2,3, measles, DPT 1,2,3 increases with the level of education.
The uptake of complete vaccination also increases with the level of education; from
53.1% to 58.1% to 67.1%. Education is significantly associated with the uptake of
complete vaccination.
The study established that the gross effect of education on the complete vaccination is
higher but it reduces when effects of other variables are controlled for such as type of
place of residence; socio-economic status, age of mother; birth order, marital status; and
region of residence.
The bivariate analysis reveals that the children born to mothers with primary education
were 1.19 likely to be fully immunized as compare to children born to mothers with no
education.
Children born to mother's with secondary education were 1.7 times likely to be fully
immunized compared to children born to mothers with no education. The results of the
logistic regressions showed that the effects of other variables are controlled for. The
effect of education reduces to 1.02 and 1.35 times likely to be fully immunized for
children born to mothers with primary education and secondary education respectively. | en |
