Table 4.
Views on priority groups for vaccination: who should be first and last groups vaccinated
| Should not be offered | Priority of being offered* | Mean† | SD | |||||||||||
| One of the first (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | One of the last (5) | ||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals | 33 | 0.7 | 4472 | 90.0 | 280 | 5.6 | 83 | 1.7 | 15 | 0.3 | 83 | 1.7 | 1.17 | 0.63 |
| People with serious health conditions which mean they are vulnerable to COVID-19 | 35 | 0.7 | 4017 | 80.9 | 671 | 13.5 | 129 | 2.6 | 35 | 0.7 | 77 | 1.6 | 1.27 | 0.69 |
| Care home workers | 36 | 0.7 | 3926 | 79.0 | 683 | 13.8 | 197 | 4.0 | 58 | 1.2 | 66 | 1.3 | 1.31 | 0.72 |
| Residents in a care home | 47 | 0.9 | 3593 | 72.4 | 734 | 14.8 | 337 | 6.8 | 123 | 2.5 | 131 | 2.6 | 1.47 | 0.93 |
| People aged 80 or over | 49 | 1.0 | 3613 | 72.9 | 706 | 14.2 | 304 | 6.1 | 118 | 2.4 | 168 | 3.4 | 1.48 | 0.96 |
| Social care workers | 33 | 0.7 | 2683 | 54.0 | 1348 | 27.2 | 683 | 13.8 | 143 | 2.9 | 75 | 1.5 | 1.70 | 0.92 |
| Schoolteachers | 47 | 0.9 | 2098 | 42.2 | 1621 | 32.6 | 886 | 17.8 | 223 | 4.5 | 94 | 1.9 | 1.90 | 0.97 |
| People with jobs that involve direct contact with members of the public | 45 | 0.9 | 1864 | 37.5 | 1603 | 32.3 | 1157 | 23.3 | 228 | 4.6 | 70 | 1.4 | 1.99 | 0.96 |
| People aged 31–50 | 43 | 0.9 | 154 | 3.1 | 614 | 12.4 | 2096 | 42.2 | 1486 | 30.0 | 568 | 11.4 | 3.35 | 0.95 |
| People aged 18–30 | 102 | 2.0 | 123 | 2.5 | 289 | 5.8 | 943 | 19.0 | 1375 | 27.7 | 2130 | 42.9 | 4.05 | 1.05 |
| People aged under 18 | 282 | 5.7 | 148 | 3.0 | 253 | 5.1 | 657 | 13.3 | 831 | 16.8 | 2788 | 56.2 | 4.25 | 1.08 |
Base: all participants (weighted). List order was randomised for each participant.
*Missing cases range from n=11 to n=21.
†Excludes ‘should not be offered’, missing cases range from n=45 to n=301.
SD, standard deviation.