Table 1.
Caregiver characteristics, number, and types of vaccine-related information sources in China, N = 2122.
| Variables | Total, N (column%) |
Number of Information Sources | Type of Information Sources | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional Sources | Media Sources | Interpersonal Sources | |||||||
| Mean | p-Value | N (row%) | p-Value | N (row%) | p-Value | N (row%) | p-Value | ||
| Total | 2122 (100%) | 2.3 | - | 1728 (81.4) | - | 1346 (63.4) | - | 546 (25.7) | - |
| Region | |||||||||
| Shaanxi province | 857 (40.4) | 2.2 | 0.047 | 678 (79.1) | 0.071 | 551 (64.3) | 0.243 | 224 (26.1) | 0.620 |
| Anhui province | 855 (40.3) | 2.3 | 707 (82.7) | 525 (61.4) | 211 (24.7) | ||||
| Shenzhen city | 410 (19.3) | 2.4 | 343 (83.7) | 270 (65.9) | 111 (27.1) | ||||
| Living residence | |||||||||
| Urban | 1294 (61.0) | 2.3 | <0.001 | 1068 (82.5) | 0.103 | 853 (65.9) | 0.003 | 337 (26.0) | 0.680 |
| Rural | 828 (39.0) | 2.2 | 660 (79.7) | 493 (59.5) | 209 (25.2) | ||||
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 496 (23.4) | 2.2 | 0.009 | 387 (78.0) | 0.026 | 312 (62.9) | 0.781 | 115 (23.2) | 0.139 |
| Female | 1626 (76.6) | 2.3 | 1341 (82.5) | 1034 (63.6) | 431 (26.5) | ||||
| Age group (years) | |||||||||
| <30 | 766 (36.1) | 2.3 | 0.002 | 618 (80.7) | 0.906 | 501 (65.4) | 0.026 | 184 (24.0) | 0.333 |
| 30–35 | 853 (40.2) | 2.3 | 696 (81.6) | 537 (63.0) | 228 (26.7) | ||||
| 35–40 | 266 (12.5) | 2.4 | 219 (82.3) | 177 (66.5) | 77 (29.0) | ||||
| >40 | 237 (11.2) | 2.1 | 195 (82.3) | 131 (55.3) | 57 (24.1) | ||||
| Religious beliefs | |||||||||
| None | 1956 (92.2) | 2.3 | 0.399 | 1597 (81.7) | 0.385 | 1244 (63.6) | 0.580 | 500 (25.6) | 0.543 |
| Buddhism or others | 166 (7.8) | 2.2 | 131 (78.9) | 102 (61.5) | 46 (27.7) | ||||
| Education level | |||||||||
| Middle school or below | 391 (18.4) | 1.9 | <0.001 | 325 (83.1) | 0.511 | 184 (47.1) | <0.001 | 88 (22.5) | 0.002 |
| High school | 411 (19.4) | 2.2 | 329 (80.1) | 251 (61.1) | 96 (23.4) | ||||
| Three-year technical college | 575 (27.1) | 2.4 | 475 (82.6) | 385 (67.0) | 133 (23.1) | ||||
| Bachelor degree or above | 745 (35.1) | 2.4 | 599 (80.4) | 526 (70.6) | 229 (30.7) | ||||
| Annual household income (1000 RMB) |
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| <20 | 296 (14.0) | 2.1 | <0.001 | 237 (80.1) | 0.024 | 187 (63.2) | <0.001 | 59 (19.9) | <0.001 |
| 20–50 | 425 (20.1) | 2.2 | 370 (87.1) | 233 (54.8) | 76 (17.9) | ||||
| 50–100 | 619 (29.2) | 2.3 | 497 (80.3) | 382 (61.7) | 180 (29.1) | ||||
| 100–200 | 479 (22.6) | 2.3 | 382 (79.8) | 323 (67.4) | 132 (27.6) | ||||
| >200 | 301 (14.2) | 2.4 | 240 (79.7) | 219 (72.8) | 99 (32.9) | ||||
| Registered residence | |||||||||
| Local residents | 1728 (81.4) | 2.3 | 0.896 | 1421 (82.2) | 0.047 | 1091 (63.1) | 0.556 | 431 (24.9) | 0.082 |
| Internal migrants | 394 (18.6) | 2.3 | 307 (77.9) | 255 (64.7) | 115 (29.2) | ||||