Between 21 and 24 February 2017, the “Training for the comprehensive analysis of vaccination coverage surveys” was held in Kathmandu, Nepal. This training brought together 25 participants from Ministries of Health, National Statistics Offices (NSOs) and research institutes from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand, plus WHO officials from South East Asia and the Western Pacific, and a person from WHO Inter-Country Support team for South and East Africa, in addition to the Swiss Tropical Institute and two consultants. Facilitators included persons from WHO, UNICEF, and five consultants, two of whom were participants in the “Statistical Training on the 2015 WHO Vaccination Coverage Survey Reference Manual” held in Madrid, Spain in 2016. The workshop sought to strengthen countries’ capacities to enhance the use of existing survey databases to conduct secondary analyses of interest to immunization programmes. Participants were introduced to the tool VCQI to calculate crude and valid coverage, vaccination drop-outs, timeliness, simultaneity, and missed opportunities for vaccination. Using VCQI outputs from the 2014 Cambodia DHS, 2014 Nepal MICS and 2012 Thailand MICS, participants discussed concepts around immunization indicators, home-based record availability, weighted and unweighted analyses and presented a brief summary of secondary indicators from said surveys proposing actions to better understand the causes of the issues detected and potential solutions to improve EPI performance.
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