No. | Reasons | Panel A: not sure (677 respondents) | Panel B: refuser (334 respondents) | ||||||||
Responses (%) | Woman (%) | Man (%) | BAME (%) | Non-BAME (%) | Responses (%) | Woman (%) | Man (%) | BAME (%) | Non-BAME (%) | ||
1 | Unless completely tested and no proven side effects | 71.00 | 67.50 | 32.50 | 5.45 | 94.55 | 54.21 | 75.48 | 24.52 | 4.55 | 95.45 |
2 | Impaired immune system | 4.00 | 68.00 | 32.00 | 3.68 | 96.32 | 20.32 | 67.82 | 32.18 | 7.82 | 92.18 |
3 | Undisclosed reasons | 2.28 | 45.60 | 54.40 | 12.07 | 87.93 | 3.41 | 66.45 | 33.55 | 27.89 | 72.11 |
4 | COVID-19 doesn’t need vaccine | 2.00 | 55.45 | 44.55 | 17.81 | 82.19 | 4.89 | 38.28 | 61.72 | 14.35 | 85.65 |
5 | Don’t believe in vaccines | 2.00 | 62.67 | 37.33 | 13.69 | 86.31 | 3.67 | 61.78 | 38.22 | 11.62 | 88.38 |
6 | Religious reasons | 2.00 | 66.82 | 33.18 | 81.92 | 18.08 | 4.21 | 69.05 | 30.95 | 89.15 | 10.85 |
7 | Vaccine development is being rushed | 10.00 | 55.22 | 44.78 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 2.65 | 85.49 | 14.51 | 0.46 | 99.54 |
8 | Below 50 years old, so not important for my age | 1.00 | 65.20 | 34.80 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 1.24 | 75.28 | 24.72 | 1.67 | 98.33 |
9 | Already infected, so not sure of vaccine side effects | 1.00 | 55.64 | 44.36 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 0.45 | 60.75 | 39.25 | 4.89 | 95.11 |
10 | Cautious of age (65+) | 2.00 | 55.88 | 44.12 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 0.67 | 88.34 | 11.66 | 1.57 | 98.43 |
11 | Don’t trust the government and pharmaceuticals | 0.20 | 59.72 | 40.28 | 18.69 | 81.31 | 1.00 | 63.48 | 36.52 | 10.68 | 89.32 |
12 | Concerned about the impact to health of family members | 2.00 | 61.08 | 38.92 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 0.78 | 67.43 | 32.57 | 25.78 | 74.22 |
13 | BAME will be used as trials to verify vaccine results | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 13.78 | 86.22 |
14 | Pregnancy-related and motherhood-related worries | 0.40 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 18.04 | 81.96 | 0.58 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 47.28 | 52.72 |
15 | Bad experience of influenza vaccine | 0.10 | 71.05 | 28.95 | 0.00 | 100.00 | 1.78 | 59.82 | 40.18 | 4.77 | 95.23 |
16 | Unethical measures used | 0.02 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 10.67 | 89.33 | 0.02 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 5.89 | 94.11 |
Note: This table reports the key reasons cited for not willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Panel A reports the reasons cited by the not sure category, and Panel B reports the findings for the refuser category.
BAME, black, Asian and minority ethnic.