TY - JOUR
T1 - Characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
AU - Borga, Liyousew G.
AU - Clark, Andrew E.
AU - D’Ambrosio, Conchita
AU - Lepinteur, Anthony
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-21-CO16-0002), André Losch Fondation, Art2Cure, Cargolux, CINVEN Foundation and COVID-19 Foundation, under the aegis of the Fondation de Luxembourg, and the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (Grant 14840950—COME-HERE).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/7/20
Y1 - 2022/7/20
N2 - Understanding what lies behind actual COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is fundamental to help policy makers increase vaccination rates and reach herd immunity. We use June 2021 data from the COME-HERE survey to explore the predictors of actual vaccine hesitancy in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden. We estimate a linear-probability model with a rich set of covariates and address issues of common-method variance. 13% of our sample say they do not plan to be vaccinated. Post-Secondary education, home-ownership, having an underlying health condition, and one standard-deviation higher age or income are all associated with lower vaccine hesitancy of 2–4.5% points. Conservative-leaning political attitudes and a one standard-deviation lower degree of confidence in the government increase this probability by 3 and 6% points respectively. Vaccine hesitancy in Spain and Sweden is significantly lower than in the other countries.
AB - Understanding what lies behind actual COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is fundamental to help policy makers increase vaccination rates and reach herd immunity. We use June 2021 data from the COME-HERE survey to explore the predictors of actual vaccine hesitancy in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Sweden. We estimate a linear-probability model with a rich set of covariates and address issues of common-method variance. 13% of our sample say they do not plan to be vaccinated. Post-Secondary education, home-ownership, having an underlying health condition, and one standard-deviation higher age or income are all associated with lower vaccine hesitancy of 2–4.5% points. Conservative-leaning political attitudes and a one standard-deviation lower degree of confidence in the government increase this probability by 3 and 6% points respectively. Vaccine hesitancy in Spain and Sweden is significantly lower than in the other countries.
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UR - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35859048
U2 - 10.1038/s41598-022-16572-x
DO - 10.1038/s41598-022-16572-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 35859048
AN - SCOPUS:85134517507
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 12
SP - 12435
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
IS - 1
M1 - 12435
ER -