Reply to comments on Monitoring vaccination coverage: Defining the role of surveys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.09.067 0264-410X/ 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecomm Dear Editor, We thank Pond and Mounier-Jack for their comments on our paper, ‘‘Monitoring vaccination coverage: Defining the role of surveys” [1]. We agree that for many countries, administrative estimates of coverage are greatly inflated and misleading for programme planning purposes. The robustness of the WHO-UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage (WUENIC) depends on the quality of the underlying data reviewed, which include administrative reports, as well as probability and non-probability sample surveys. In 2012, the Grade of Confidence (GoC) was introduced as a means of conveying uncertainty in WUENIC [2] and is low in the seven conflict-affected countries listed by Pond and Mounier-Jack. Table 1 shows that in five of these countries,
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