Table 2

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

InclusionExclusion
Participants
  • History of Rural-to-Urban migration within low-and-middle-income country (LMIC)

  • Children under the age of 5 years

  • Non-migrants (rural and urban), rural–rural migrants

  • Studies in which migrants’ origin is not rural (eg, urban–rural, urban–urban migrants)

  • Studies with no mention of migration status or the migration status is unclear

Outcome
  • Quantitative coverage of any/all of the WHO recommended routine vaccines under the original Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). These are: BCG, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, oral polio, measles and recently added hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccines. As well vaccines relevant to country-specific EPI schedule.

  • Immunisation status assessed objectively using child's immunisation records or health facility data and maternal/care-giver recall

  • Quantitative coverage of non-routine EPI vaccines

  • Supplementary immunisation activities (SIAs) and campaigns

  • Studies assessing Immunity to VPDs

Other
  • Observational studies

  • Any publication date

  • Any language

  • Published and unpublished data

  • Qualitative studies

  • Policy papers without original data

  • VPDs, vaccine-preventable diseases.