Table 2.
Demographic characteristics of cohort stratified by SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy.
| Variable | SARS-CoV-2 vaccine |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Not hesitant 8691 (75•0%) | Hesitant 2694 (23•3%) | Missing 199 (1•7%) | |
| Age, median (IQR) | 46 (36 - 55) | 40 (31 - 51) | 43 (34 - 54) |
| Sex, n(%) | |||
| Male | 2298 (82.2%) | 466 (16.7%) | 33 (1.2%) |
| Female | 6393 (72.8%) | 2228 (25.4%) | 166 (1.9%) |
| Ethnicity, n(%) | |||
| White - English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish | 5365 (77.7%) | 1452 (21.0%) | 90 (1.3%) |
| White - Irish | 156 (74.6%) | 50 (23.9%) | <5 (<2%) |
| White - Other/Gypsy Irish Traveller | 606 (69.0%) | 252 (28.7%) | 20 (2.3%) |
| Asian - Indian | 936 (78.9%) | 232 (19.6%) | 19 (1.6%) |
| Asian - Pakistani | 215 (68.3%) | 94 (29.8%) | 6 (1.9%) |
| Asian - Bangladeshi | 55 (79.7%) | 13 (18.8%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Asian - Chinese | 166 (65.6%) | 82 (32.4%) | 5 (2•0%) |
| Asian - Other | 269 (73.7%) | 89 (24.4%) | 7 (1.9%) |
| Black - African | 210 (60.2%) | 120 (34.4%) | 19 (5.4%) |
| Black - Caribbean | 44 (43.1%) | 52 (51.0%) | 6 (5.9%) |
| Black - Other | 11 (55.0%) | 7 (35.0%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Mixed - White & Black African | 47 (71.2%) | 18 (27.3%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Mixed - White & Black Caribbean | 50 (59.5%) | 32 (38.1%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Mixed - White & Asian | 140 (78.2%) | 37 (20.7%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Mixed - Other | 103 (72.5%) | 36 (25.4%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Other - Arab | 83 (68.0%) | 34 (27.9%) | 5 (4.1%) |
| Other | 89 (72.4%) | 33 (26.8%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Religion, n(%) | |||
| None | 2995 (76.0%) | 896 (22.8%) | 48 (1.2%) |
| Christian | 3827 (74.9%) | 1176 (23.0%) | 106 (2.1%) |
| Buddhist | 93 (69.9%) | 36 (27.1%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Hindu | 557 (79.9%) | 132 (18.9%) | 8 (1.2%) |
| Jewish | 93 (86.9%) | 13 (12.2%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Muslim | 472 (70.5%) | 184 (27.5%) | 14 (2.1%) |
| Sikh | 89 (74.2%) | 28 (23.3%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Other | 99 (63.5%) | 55 (35.3%) | <5 (<2%) |
| Country of birth, n(%) | |||
| UK | 6411 (75.8%) | 1924 (22.7%) | 127 (1.5%) |
| Outside UK | 2264 (73.1%) | 760 (24.6%) | 72 (2.3%) |
| Job role, n(%) | |||
| Doctors and medical support | 2166 (80.9%) | 493 (18.4%) | 20 (0.8%) |
| Nurses, NAs, Midwives | 1598 (69.5%) | 648 (28.2%) | 54 (2.4%) |
| Allied Health Professionals* | 3689 (74.4%) | 1184 (23.9%) | 86 (1.7%) |
| Dental | 551 (77.0%) | 151 (21.1%) | 14 (2.0%) |
| Administrative/Estates/Other | 369 (75.6%) | 106 (21.7%) | 13 (2.7%) |
| Job location, n(%) | |||
| Not in hospital | 3859 (77.0%) | 1072 (21.4%) | 82 (1.6%) |
| Hospital | 4595 (73.5%) | 1555 (24.9%) | 104 (1.7%) |
| IMD quintile | |||
| 1 (most deprived) | 661 (68.5%) | 281 (29.1%) | 23 (2.4%) |
| 2 | 1169 (70.4%) | 458 (27.6%) | 33 (2.0%) |
| 3 | 1574 (75.1%) | 479 (22.8%) | 44 (2.1%) |
| 4 | 1900 (76.7%) | 527 (21.3%) | 51 (2.1%) |
| 5 (least deprived) | 2294 (78.4%) | 603 (20.6%) | 29 (1.0%) |
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Also includes pharmacists, healthcare scientists, ambulance workers and those in optical roles