Table 1.
Proportion of Irish (n = 1030) and UK (n = 2020) samples accepting, hesitant to and resistant to a COVID-19 vaccine.
| Country | Wave 1 |
Wave 2 |
Wave 3 |
Pairwise comparisons (Wald chi-squared) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | Wave 1 vs wave 2 | Wave 1 vs wave 3 | Wave 2 vs wave 3 | |
| Ireland | ||||||
| Acceptance | 64.9 (61.9, 67.8) | 64.3 (60.5, 68.1) | 55.4 (51.6, 59.3) | Chi-squared = 0.09 | Chi-squared = 24.67∗∗∗ | Chi-squared = 22.05∗∗∗ |
| Hesitance | 25.6 (22.9, 28.3) | 23.0 (19.5, 26.4) | 26.6 (23.0, 30.2) | Chi-squared = 2.02 | Chi-squared = 0.23 | Chi-squared = 3.08 |
| Resistance | 9.5 (7.7, 11.3) | 12.9 (10.1, 15.6) | 18.1 (15.0, 21.2) | Chi-squared = 6.27∗ | Chi-squared = 30.24∗∗∗ | Chi-squared = 11.03∗∗∗ |
| UK | ||||||
| Acceptance | 68.8 (66.8, 70.9) | 66.6 (64.3, 69.0) | 71.8 (69.4, 74.3) | Chi-squared = 3.12 | Chi-squared = 5.53∗ | Chi-squared = 18.97∗∗∗ |
| Hesitance | 24.9 (23.1, 26.8) | 23.8 (21.7, 26.0) | 18.1 (16.0, 20.2) | Chi-squared = 0.88 | Chi-squared = 30.29∗∗∗ | Chi-squared = 23.54∗∗∗ |
| Resistance | 6.2 (5.2, 7.3) | 9.4 (7.9, 10.9) | 10.0 (8.4, 11.7) | Chi-squared = 17.68∗∗∗ | Chi-squared = 20.57∗∗∗ | Chi-squared = 0.51 |
95% CI = 95% confidence interval; UK, United Kingdom.
All degrees of freedom = 1
∗ P < .05.
∗∗ P < .01.
∗∗∗ P < .001.