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. 2023 Jun 14:100253. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.osnem.2023.100253

Table 7.

The prevalence and chi-square values (in thousands) of topics in user comments per country. A higher chi-square value means a more significant difference in prevalence compared with the expected (random) one. For instance, “variants” is the topic of 12.5% of the user comments from the United Kingdom, with a chi-square value of 27.2×103.

Country Medical
care
Educational
impact
Economic
impact
Political
response
Variants Preventive
measures
Cases &
Deaths
Vaccination Breaking
news
Governmental
actions
Daily life
impact
People
stories
Australia 14.8% (0.1) 13.3% (0.3) 11.0% (0.1) 7.5% (9.5) 9.3% (0.0) 10.5% (1.8) 7.7% (1.8) 8.0% (1.0) 1.8% (5.8) 2.6% (1.0) 5.4% (1.4) 8.2% (13.2)
Canada 13.2% (2.7) 19.8% (19.2) 13.9% (9.8) 7.6% (15.3) 13.2% (11.6) 5.1% (13.2) 5.2% (1.6) 10.2% (14.8) 3.6% (0.1) 1.9% (6.3) 2.9% (4.3) 3.5% (2.7)
Ireland 16.9% (0.5) 15.8% (0.6) 9.7% (0.2) 4.8% (15.3) 11.0% (0.7) 10.5% (1.2) 9.4% (5.5) 8.6% (1.6) 3.8% (0.0) 3.8% (0.1) 2.0% (4.4) 3.6% (0.9)
India 15.4% (0.0) 6.9% (28.7) 8.7% (2.3) 22.0% (60.8) 6.4% (8.5) 4.1% (19.4) 7.2% (1.2) 7.3% (0.2) 2.0% (6.6) 10.9% (122.8) 3.6% (0.8) 5.5% (1.0)
Kenia 19.3% (1.9) 14.9% (0.1) 12.2% (0.6) 8.1% (2.6) 7.6% (0.8) 4.0% (5.0) 9.3% (2.8) 7.3% (0.1) 3.8% (0.0) 5.4% (2.0) 2.3% (1.8) 5.8% (0.5)
Malaysia 13.2% (0.2) 12.8% (0.1) 9.2% (0.1) 10.5% (0.1) 8.2% (0.1) 4.1% (1.4) 9.4% (0.9) 10.1% (0.9) 3.7% (0.0) 5.2% (0.5) 1.9% (0.8) 11.7% (6.0)
Nigeria 14.9% (0.0) 23.4% (14.8) 7.9% (1.5) 7.7% (4.1) 6.5% (2.4) 6.9% (1.0) 6.8% (0.1) 5.0% (1.2) 5.4% (1.6) 7.2% (10.1) 2.8% (1.3) 5.3% (0.2)
Philippines 11.4% (3.5) 11.0% (2.6) 8.9% (0.8) 7.8% (5.6) 6.7% (3.1) 3.2% (12.1) 11.1% (13.0) 8.4% (1.3) 19.4% (220.6) 5.1% (2.6) 2.7% (2.0) 4.3% (0.1)
United Kingdom 16.9% (5.2) 12.2% (9.1) 9.0% (5.9) 6.7% (80.7) 12.5% (27.2) 17.6% (289.6) 5.8% (1.0) 5.3% (11.2) 3.1% (4.5) 2.3% (13.4) 5.1% (4.3) 3.5% (10.4)
United States 15.3% (0.0) 16.1% (9.1) 11.7% (6.3) 18.1% (106.9) 7.6% (15.4) 2.3% (179.0) 4.8% (12.9) 6.9% (0.0) 3.6% (0.3) 3.0% (2.0) 5.0% (4.2) 5.5% (4.4)
South Africa 11.0% (7.4) 12.5% (1.2) 8.4% (2.3) 13.5% (0.8) 8.9% (0.3) 16.1% (36.4) 10.8% (19.1) 6.8% (0.0) 3.8% (0.0) 2.6% (1.2) 1.7% (9.6) 4.0% (0.6)
Mean 15.4% 14.2% 10.4% 12.2% 9.6% 8.8% 6.3% 6.8% 3.8% 3.5% 4.3% 4.7%