Schools as potential vaccination venue for vaccines outside regular EPI schedule: results from a school census in Pakistan

Table 1 Basic characteristics of schools in two townships of Karachi, Pakistan

	Gulshan		Jamshed		Total
	N	%	n	%	n	%
Total number of schools	543		553		1,096
Total number of students	153,472		151,364		304,836
Total School Enrolment
<100	131	24	145	26	276	25
100- <500	334	62	330	60	664	61
500- <1,000	59	11	61	11	120	11
> = 1,000	19	3	17	3	36	3
School type ^†
Public	53	10	172	31	225	21
Private	421	78	344	62	765	70
Madrasah	66	12	34	6	100	9
Medium of education ^†
English	418	77	338	61	756	69
Urdu	55	10	183	33	238	22
Sindhi	12	2	3	1	15	1
Arabic	55	10	28	5	83	8
Minimum monthly school tuition fee (mean/median) in USD*
Public	0/0		0/0		0/0
Private	10.1/6.3		7.7/4.4		9.1/5.0
Madrasah	1/0		1.8/1.3		1.1/0.4
Availability of welfare system at school ^$
Public	19/50	38	108/172	63	127/222	57
Private	287/413	69	254/341	74	541/755	72
Madrasah	46/64	72	20/34	59	66/98	67
Availability of health education at school ^$
Public	4/53	8	15/172	9	19/225	8
Private	60/414	14	67/343	19	127/757	17
Madrasah	12/66	18	2/34	6	14/100	14
Availability of medical care at school ^$
Public	38/53	72	117/172	68	155/225	69
Private	383/414	93	306/341	90	689/755	91
Madrasah	46/66	70	14/34	41	60/100	60

^†percentages are mentioned for responses where participants responded to the questions
^$ Missing information, denominators are given along with positive responses
*1USD = 80PKR

ISSN: 1756-0500