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. 2024 Dec 6;12:e18316. doi: 10.7717/peerj.18316

Table 2. Demographic characteristics of study participants, January–May 2021, n = 924.

Total N = 924 (col%) Unlikely to get vaccinated N = 115 n (row%) Neither likely nor unlikely N = 96 n (row%) Likely to get vaccinated N = 713 n (row%) Chi2 P-value
Gender
Male 626 (68) 74 (12) 57 (9) 495 (79) 0.10
Female 281 (30) 41 (15) 37 (13) 203 (72)
Nonbinary/Other/PNTS 17 (2) 0 (0) 2 (12) 15 (88)
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic 543 (59) 63 (12) 49 (9) 431 (79) 0.19
Hispanic 370 (40) 52 (14) 45 (12) 273 (74)
PNTS 11 (1) 0 (0) 2 (18) 9 (82)
Race
White 654 (71) 75 (11) 52 (8) 527 (81) <0.001**
Black/AA* 41 (4) 5 (12) 13 (32) 23 (56)
Asian 52 (6) 2 (4) 5 (10) 45 (87)
Indigenous* 23 (2) 4 (17) 3 (13) 16 (70)
Other Race 77 (8) 12 (16) 11 (14) 54 (70)
Mixed 47 (5) 13 (28) 10 (21) 24 (51)
PNTS 30 (3) 4 (!3) 2 (7) 24 (80)
Education
Not college graduate 485 (53) 77 (16) 57 (12) 351 (72) 0.002**
College graduate 426 (46) 35 (8) 38 (9) 353 (83)
PNTS 13 (1) 3 (23) 1 (8) 9 (69)
Marital Status
Single 328 (36) 42 (13) 38 (12) 248 (76) 0.005**
Married/Partnered 427 (46) 44 (10) 37 (9) 346 (81)
Div/Sep/Wid* 155 (17) 28 (18) 16 (10) 111 (72)
PNTS 14 (2) 1 (82) 5 (36) 8 (57)
Income (annual in USD)
Less than 25,000 309 (33) 44 (14) 35 (11) 230 (74) 0.14
25,000–49,999 244 (60) 32 (13) 31 (13) 181 (74)
50–74,999 134 (74) 17 (13) 12 (9) 105 (78)
>75,000 150 (91) 11 (7) 8 (5) 131 (87)
PNTS 87 (9) 11 (13) 10 (11) 66 (76)
Political affiliation
Liberal 338 (37) 14 (4) 20 (6) 304 (90) <0.001**
Moderate 271 (29) 28 (10) 31 (11) 212 (78)
Conservative 144 (16) 37 (26) 17 (12) 90 (63)
PNTS 171 (19) 36 (21) 28 (16) 107 (63)
Age, yrs: mean (±SD) 43.9 (±1.3) 43.0 (±3.5) 38.6 (±3.8) 44.6 (±1.5)

Notes:

**

P < 0.05.

Values shown are n (%) where the percentage is of the row totals.

Abbreviations: n, total number; USD, United States dollars; SD, Standard Deviation.

P-values are from Chi-squared tests, except for age where a T-test was used.

*

Indigenous = Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander or American Indian or Alaska Native, AA, African American; Div/Sep/Wid, Divorced, Separated, Widowed; PNTS, prefer not to say.