Table 3.
By mobile phone ownership and social media use, sources of vaccine information, sources of negative information and sources used to clarify COVID-19 vaccine information.
| Total population (all phone survey respondents) | Nonmobile phone owners | Mobile phone owner doesn't use social media | Mobile phone owner uses social medial | Weighted Pearson chi-square statistic** p-value for differential distribution of sources between nonphone owners, phone owners without social media use and social media users | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | p-value | |
| Percent using source for vaccine information | |||||
| TV | 430 (42.7) | 71 (35.2) | 224 (36.6) | 135 (68.6) | <0.001 |
| Newspaper | 205 (18.5) | 28 (12.9) | 115 (17.1) | 62 (28.3) | 0.00 |
| Radio | 905 (85.0) | 191 (90.1) | 546 (84.6) | 168 (81.7) | 0.13 |
| Internet | 181 (17.6) | 21 (10.2) | 38 (5.7) | 122 (61.4) | <0.001 |
| Social media | 221 (20.9) | 25 (11.2) | 46 (6.9) | 150 (73.3) | <0.001 |
| Friends or family | 783 (73.1) | 152 (71.5) | 483 (74.1) | 149 (71.5) | 0.73 |
| District task force | 566 (52.3) | 119 (51.6) | 354 (54.9) | 93 (44.9) | 0.09 |
| Traditional leader | 553 (51.8) | 107 (49.4) | 344 (52.5) | 102 (51.8) | 0.78 |
| Politicians | 800 (75.9) | 156 (72.8) | 517 (80.7) | 127 (63.7) | <0.001 |
| Health authorities | 901 (85.3) | 190 (86.8) | 559 (87.7) | 152 (76.3) | 0.01 |
| Percent who had seen or heard anything bad about COVID-19 from each source | |||||
| Social media | 158 (15.7) | 19 (9.5) | 34 (4.7) | 105 (55.8) | <0.001 |
| Church or mosque | 174 (17.4) | 21 (10.3) | 109 (17.8) | 44 (22.7) | 0.02 |
| Family | 336 (33.1) | 72 (37.2) | 188 (29.9) | 76 (39.0) | 0.06 |
| Community at large | 625 (60.8) | 126 (62.8) | 361 (57.0) | 138 (70.8) | 0.01 |
| Percent using each source to clarify unsure COVID-19 vaccine information | |||||
| Social media | 137 (13.4) | 17 (7.1) | 36 (5.6) | 115 (43.6) | <0.001 |
| Internet | 149 (13.8) | 22 (9.3) | 40 (5.8) | 87 (42.9) | <0.001 |
| Health worker | 923 (87.0) | 186 (86.6) | 566 (88.4) | 171 (82.9) | 0.22 |
| Family | 633 (67.9) | 139 (61.1) | 382 (59.9) | 112 (62.1) | 0.24 |
| Friends | 623 (60.0) | 126 (62.5) | 381 (60.2) | 116 (57.2) | 0.63 |
N is unweighted, % is weighted.
**Due to complex survey design, chi-2 tests were adjusted with Rao and Scott's first-order correction method.