How many times have your children been immunized? d. Measles
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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.
Interviewer instructions
Enter how many times a child has been given immunization according to the mother's answer, and enter the code into the boxes provided. If the answer is never, enter a zero and if she does not know, enter a nine.
Description
Definition
Immunization or vaccination is inserting certain attenuated germs or toxins(vaccine) into human body by means of injecting or drinking(dropping into mouth) in order to increase body immunity against the disease.
Measles/morbilli is a vaccine to prevent measles/morbilli; (please state the symptoms and epidemic area of measles if the mother seems not understand), that is usually given one time to a baby aged between 9 to 12 months, by injecting on the thigh.