Bay Citizen Creates New Data Tool to Map Immunization Rates

The Bay Citizen media outlet has created an interactive data tool showing immunization rates among Bay Area schoolchildren in 2010-2011.

The data include enrolled kindergarten students from public and private schools. Users can scan the data by county, city, school district, or even individual elementary schools.

Immunizations are important for the protection of the individual child as well as for public health, as they help children avoid contracting numerous serious and potentially fatal infectious diseases. However, not all children are immunized. According to kidsdata.org, about 1 in 10 kindergarteners in California had not obtained all required immunizations in 2010.

According to the Bay Citizen’s immunization tool, some Bay Area kindergarteners were either in the process of receiving their immunizations (6.34% in 2010-11) or their parents had cited personal beliefs as reasons for not obtaining immunizations for their child (2.16%).

Find data for Bay Area counties, cities, school districts, and schools.

Also see:

• California kindergarteners with all required immunizations in 2010, by county
• More information about why this topic is important, related policy implications, research, and key reports.

Posted by Lindsey Nguyen

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