Table 2.
Summary statistics of sample by country of origin.
| Control variable | Overall n = 4303 |
AUS (n = 1678) |
NZ (n = 471) |
US (n = 919) |
ENG (n = 540) |
CAN (n = 695) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country of residence (%) | 100% | 39.0 | 10.9 | 21.4 | 12.5 | 16.2 |
| Female (%)^ | 50.7 | 50.7 (50.7) | 50.5 (50.4) | 50.1 (50.8) | 50.4 (50.6) | 50.8 (50.3) |
| Median adult age in years^ | 49.5 | 55–64 (44.5) | 35–44 (43.8) | 35–44 (44.0) | 35–44 (46.2) | 45–54 (47.0) |
| Median annual income (local currency)^ | – | $42–52 K ($47 K) | $35–40 K ($41 K) | $30–35 K ($39 K) | £20-25 K (£22 K) | $52–65 K ($63 K) |
| Median annual income ($US)^ | $30–38 K ($37 K) | $31–39 K ($35 K) | $24–27 K ($29 K) | $30–35 K ($39 K) | $24–30 K ($26 K) | $42–53 K ($51 K) |
| Type of area residing (%): | ||||||
| Living in a rural area | 30.9 | 25.4 | 26.4 | 43.9 | 29.9 | 30.8 |
| Living in a small metropolitan area | 27.0 | 22.0 | 30.6 | 31.0 | 29.2 | 29.8 |
| Living in large metropolitan area | 42.1 | 52.6 | 43.0 | 25.1 | 40.9 | 39.5 |
| Household type (%): | ||||||
| Couple with no dependent children | 35.1 | 42.2 | 32.6 | 26.4 | 34.4 | 31.7 |
| Family with dependent children | 29.2 | 26.7 | 31.7 | 30.4 | 30.6 | 31.1 |
| Lone person | 20.3 | 20.1 | 16.1 | 20.9 | 18.3 | 24.5 |
| Other household type (e.g., group household) | 15.3 | 11.0 | 19.6 | 22.2 | 16.7 | 12.7 |
| Employment status (%): | ||||||
| Full-time | 37.4 | 31.7 | 39.6 | 34.0 | 45.6 | 47.5 |
| Part-time/casual | 16.3 | 16.9 | 18.9 | 15.5 | 15.9 | 14.5 |
| Unemployed (looking) | 7.4 | 6.6 | 9.4 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 6.1 |
| Unemployed (not looked) | 5.6 | 5.1 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 5.4 | 5.1 |
| Retired | 24.6 | 32.8 | 15.5 | 23.3 | 17.9 | 17.6 |
| Other employment or not stated | 8.8 | 6.9 | 9.8 | 12.0 | 8.0 | 9.2 |
| Highest education qualification (%): | ||||||
| No qualification | 9.2 | 16.2 | 11.1 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.0 |
| High school qualification | 21.4 | 13.0 | 33.0 | 26.4 | 22.1 | 26.6 |
| Bachelor degree qualification | 24.7 | 23.6 | 22.6 | 22.4 | 27.1 | 29.8 |
| Postgraduate (Masters, PhD) qualification | 13.6 | 16.9 | 17.0 | 13.2 | 18.5 | 20.3 |
| Other qualification (eg apprenticeship) | 31.1 | 30.3 | 16.4 | 34.5 | 28.6 | 20.3 |
| Control variable | Overall | AUS | NZ | US | ENG | CAN |
| Religion (%): | ||||||
| Catholic | 21.0 | 21.0 | 11.3 | 24.6 | 12.0 | 29.8 |
| Anglican | 9.3 | 13.7 | 8.0 | 0.6 | 18.5 | 3.4 |
| Protestant | 8.7 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 16.0 | 5.7 | 11.4 |
| Baptist | 3.0 | 1.6 | 3.1 | 6.8 | 1.3 | 2.4 |
| Other Christian | 6.4 | 7.4 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 4.8 | 4.4 |
| Buddhism or Hinduism | 3.0 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.8 |
| Islam | 2.3 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 6.9 | 1.6 |
| Other religion | 10.5 | 7.9 | 9.7 | 17.2 | 8.2 | 10.6 |
| No religion | 35.9 | 37.5 | 51.8 | 23.6 | 40.3 | 33.7 |
| Religiosity (-1=not at all; +1=very much so) | −0.25 (0.71)# | −0.30 (0.68) | −0.35 (0.71) | −0.04 (0.73) | −0.38 (0.67) | −0.26 (0.70) |
| Political orientation (left-wing=0; right-wing=100) | 52.8 (22.8)# | 53.3 (21.2) | 49.1 (23.1) | 55.3 (26.7) | 53.3 (20.6) | 50.5 (22.1) |
| Flu-vaccination rates (%): | ||||||
| Received flu vaccine in last 12 months | 47.3 | 57.6 | 40.1 | 45.6 | 37.6 | 37.4 |
| Received flu vaccine in last 2 years | 15.2 | 13.3 | 16.3 | 16.6 | 15.0 | 17.6 |
| Received flu vaccine in last 5 years | 9.2 | 7.2 | 11.0 | 11.6 | 9.3 | 9.5 |
| Received flu vaccine more than 5 years ago | 9.0 | 5.7 | 11.0 | 11.5 | 9.6 | 11.7 |
| Never received flu vaccine | 19.2 | 16.3 | 21.4 | 14.6 | 28.5 | 23.9 |
| COVID-19 testing (%): | ||||||
| Individual received positive C-19 test result | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 1.0 |
| Individual received negative C-19 test result | 23.3 | 23.2 | 22.3 | 28.9 | 24.3 | 16.3 |
| Individual not been tested for C-19 | 74.9 | 75.9 | 77.5 | 67.2 | 72.6 | 82.7 |
| Know another who has died from C-19 | 7.3 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 13.7 | 13.8 | 6.2 |
| Know another testing positive for C-19, but not died | 10.1 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 20.3 | 17.3 | 10.2 |
| Know another receiving negative C-19 test result | 43.8 | 52.8 | 54.0 | 29.5 | 33.0 | 42.8 |
| Do not know another who has been tested or died | 38.8 | 40.1 | 39.4 | 36.6 | 35.9 | 40.8 |
# Sample standard deviation shown in parentheses.
^ Census results adjusted for inflation shown in parentheses.
Sources (date of Census result available shown in parentheses):
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016).
Statistics New Zealand (2018).
United States Census Bureau (2010).
Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom (2018).
Statistics Canada (2016).