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World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF estimates of national immunization coverage (WUENIC) are produced annually for various vaccine\u2013dose combinations and all WHO Member States using information from multiple data sources and a deterministic computational logic approach. This approach, however, is incapable of characterizing the uncertainties inherent in coverage measurement and estimation. It also provides no statistically principled way of exploiting and accounting for the interdependence in immunization coverage data collected for multiple vaccines, countries, and time points. Here, we develop Bayesian hierarchical modeling approaches for producing accurate ENIC and associated uncertainties. We propose and explore two candidate models: a base single likelihood (BSL) model and an irregular data multiple likelihood (IDML) model, both of which differ in their handling of missing data and characterization of the uncertainties associated with the multiple input data sources. 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