SueMungai/Vaccination-Rates-Analysis-for-Preventable-Childhood-Diseases-in-Nigeria

# Vaccination Rates Analysis for Preventable Childhood Diseases in Nigeria ## 1. Business Understanding ### 1.2 Problem Statement The Nigerian Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) was initiated in 1979. There was progress in the 1980s and since then, the vaccination coverage has then stagnated. The real goal is to make sure that all children under one year old are fully immunised at a rate of 90 percent nationally and at least 80 percent in each state. ### 1.3 Objectives The objective is to create client value by addressing the challenge of improving vaccination rates through data analysis and providing actionable recommendations. Specific Objectives - Conduct exploratory data analysis to gain a comprehensive understanding of the vaccination rates. - Perform statistical analysis and identify patterns, trends and within the data and derive meaningful insights. - Create informative visualisations and present the insights in an understandable manner. - Give sensible recommendations based on findings discovered when analysing the data. ## 2.Data Understanding ### 2.1 Overview This data was collected from the National Nutrition and Health Survey conducted in 37 domains, 36 states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between February 19 and June 2,2018. The data will be extracted from the opendataAfrica website, an API was provided to extract the data for an analysis. I then imported the necessary libraries for loading of the dataset using the API; requests, json and pandas