Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of various populations by willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in China
| Variables | N% | Willingness to receive vaccine |
P | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes N (%) | No and unsure N (%) | |||
| Whole sample | 3195 (100.0) | 2676 (83.8) | 519 (16.2) | |
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 1163 (36.4) | 991 (85.2) | 172 (14.8) | 0.092 |
| Female | 2032 (63.6) | 1685 (82.9) | 347 (17.1) | |
| Age | ||||
| 18–25 | 1503 (47.1) | 1282 (85.3) | 221 (14.7) | 0.049* |
| 26–44 | 1260 (39.4) | 1045 (82.9) | 215 (17.1) | |
| ≥45 | 432 (13.5) | 349 (80.8) | 83 (19.2) | |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| The Han nationality | 3048 (95.4) | 2564 (84.1) | 484 (15.9) | 0.011* |
| Other | 147 (4.6) | 112 (76.2) | 35 (23.8) | |
| Educational level | ||||
| ≤High school | 342 (10.7) | 301 (88.0) | 41 (12.0) | <0.001* |
| Bachelor | 1812 (56.7) | 1540 (85.0) | 272 (15.0) | |
| Master and above | 1041 (32.6) | 835 (80.2) | 206 (19.8) | |
| Occupation | ||||
| Students | 1320 (41.3) | 1130 (85.6) | 190 (14.4) | 0.33 |
| Company employees | 440 (13.8) | 356 (83.0) | 75 (17.0) | |
| Professional technicians | 404 (12.6) | 325 (80.4) | 79 (19.6) | |
| Health care professionals | 345 (10.8) | 284 (82.3) | 61 (17.7) | |
| Public servants | 252 (7.9) | 206 (81.7) | 46 (18.3) | |
| Freelancers | 229 (7.2) | 194 (84.7) | 35 (15.3) | |
| Self-employed | 106 (3.3) | 90 (84.9) | 16 (15.1) | |
| Retirees | 67 (2.1) | 54 (80.6) | 13 (19.4) | |
| Others | 32 (1.0) | 28 (87.5) | 4 (12.5) | |
| Monthly income | ||||
| <2000 RMB | 1071 (33.5) | 918 (85.7) | 153 (14.3) | 0.035* |
| 2001–5000 RMB | 871 (27.3) | 723 (83.0) | 148 (17.0) | |
| 5001–10000 RMB | 581 (18.2) | 495 (85.2) | 86 (14.8) | |
| 10001–20000 RMB | 429 (13.4) | 342 (79.7) | 87 (20.3) | |
| >20000 RMB | 243 (7.6) | 198 (81.5) | 45 (18.5) | |
| Health | ||||
| Good | 2811 (88.0) | 2366 (84.2) | 445 (15.8) | 0.214 |
| General | 371 (11.6) | 300 (80.9) | 71 (19.1) | |
| Poor | 13 (0.4) | 10 (76.9) | 3 (23.1) | |
| Chronic disease or not | ||||
| Yes | 333 (10.4) | 66 (19.8) | 267 (80.2) | 0.062 |
| No | 2862 (89.6) | 453 (15.8) | 2409 (84.2) | |