Table 2.
Reasons for not having the NHS Test and Trace app for those who do not intend to download it and those who downloaded but deleted the app.
| Reasons for not having the appa | Participants who do not intend to download the app (n=264) | Participants who downloaded but deleted the app (n=81) | |||
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n (%) | 95% CI | n (%) | 95% CI | |
| I don’t want to be tracked | 105 (39.8) | 36.8-42.8 | 22 (27.2) | 24.4-30.0 | |
| I don’t think it will be effective | 80 (30.3) | 27.5-33.1 | 28 (34.6) | 31.7-37.5 | |
| I choose/chose not to take part in contact tracing in this way | 78 (29.5) | 26.7-32.3 | 12 (14.8) | 12.6-17.0 | |
| I don’t trust the people who built the app | 72 (27.3) | 24.5-30.1 | 14 (17.3) | 15.0-19.6 | |
| The app doesn’t/didn’t work on my mobile phone | 28 (10.6) | 8.7-12.5 | 14 (17.3) | 15.0-19.6 | |
| I don’t have a smartphone | 27 (10.2) | 8.3-12.1 | N/Ab | N/A | |
| I don’t want to be told to self-isolate | 16 (6.1) | 4.9-7.6 | 9 (11.1) | 9.2-13.0 | |
| None of the above | 25 (9.5) | 7.7-11.3 | 7 (8.6) | 6.9-10.3 | |
| I wouldn’t/didn’t know how to use it | 12 (4.5) | 3.2-5.8 | 12 (14.8) | 12.6-17.0 | |
| Don’t know | 1 (0.1) | 0-0.3 | 0 (0) | —c | |
aMultiple answers were allowed.
bN/A: not applicable, because participants do not have a smartphone, which is needed to download the app.
cThe 95% CI value could not be calculated since there were no participants.