Change on a year earlierApril 2020Maternal and child
West Bengal: fully immunised children fell to 1,235 in April 2020, against 98,943 a year earlier (−99%).
What happened
- April 2020
- 1,235
- April 2019
- 98,943
- Change
- −97,708
- Change, per cent
- −99%
Why it matters
Comparing a week or month with the same week or month a year earlier removes ordinary seasonality: monsoon-season fever, the March reporting rush. What remains is change the calendar does not explain.
For fully immunised children, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.
Historical context
Compared with the same month of 2019, which removes ordinary seasonality. This comparison involves the COVID-19 disruption period (March 2020 – June 2021), when service use and reporting fell sharply.
The underlying data
| Period | Value | Release | Where in the document |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | 1,235 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional) | 2020-2021(Data is Provisional)/A.MonthWise/A-Apr.xlsx: '9.2.4.a' Children aged between 9 and 11 months fully immunized- Male + '9.2.4.b' Children aged between 9 and 11 months fully immunized - Female; column "West Bengal", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
| April 2019 | 98,943 | HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2019 (FY 2019-20, provisional) | 2019-2020.zip › 2019-2020/A.MonthWise/A - April.xls: '9.2.4.a' Children aged between 9 and 11 months fully immunized- Male + '9.2.4.b' Children aged between 9 and 11 months fully immunized - Female; column "West Bengal", Total [(A+B) or (C+D)] |
Source and method
More signals for fully immunised children in West Bengal
- West Bengal: fully immunised children rose to 93,707 in April 2021, against 1,235 a year earlier (+7488%).
- West Bengal: 1,70,952 fully immunised children in June 2020, the most since December 2018.
- West Bengal: fully immunised children in April 2020 was 1,235, below the 3-year median of 1,04,682 for the same month (−99%).
- West Bengal: fully immunised children rose to 1,17,565 in November 2019, against 11,921 a year earlier (+886%).
- West Bengal: 1,72,828 fully immunised children in December 2018, the most in the series, which begins April 2017.
- West Bengal: fully immunised children rose to 1,72,828 in December 2018, against 1,07,707 a year earlier (+60%).
Cite this
According to the India Health Observatory, West Bengal: fully immunised children fell to 1,235 in April 2020, against 98,943 a year earlier (−99%). Source: Health Management Information System, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, HMIS item-wise monthly report, All India across states, April 2020 (FY 2020-21, provisional). https://indiahealthobservatory.com/signals/fully-immunised-children--west-bengal--2020-04--yoy_change
See also West Bengal and 1,235 in context.