Table 2.
Participants’ characteristics and vaccination attitude in September 2021.
| Vaccination Attitude | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Acceptant (%) | Unsure (%) | Hesitant (%) | p | |
| Gender | 1000 | 855 (85.5) | 56 (5.6) | 89 (8.9) | |
| Female | 520 | 451 (86.7) | 28 (5.4) | 41 (7.9) | 0.464 |
| Male | 480 | 404 (84.2) | 28 (5.7) | 48 (10.0) | |
| Other | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Residential area | |||||
| Tokyo metropolitan area | 421 | 367 (87.2) | 24 (5.7) | 30 (7.1) | 0.204 |
| Northern Japan | 121 | 96 (79.3) | 10 (8.3) | 15 (12.4) | |
| Central Japan | 129 | 117 (90.7) | 3 (2.3) | 9 (7.0) | |
| Western Japan | 264 | 223 (84.5) | 14 (5.3) | 27 (10.2) | |
| Southern Japan | 65 | 52 (80.0) | 5 (7.7) | 8 (12.3) | |
| Education | |||||
| University-level education | 594 | 531 (89.4) | 27 (4.6) | 36 (6.1) | <0.000 |
| Below university level | 406 | 324 (79.8) | 29 (7.1) | 53 (13.1) | |
| Annual income (in JPY) | |||||
| <JPY 2,000,000 | 107 | 91 (85.1) | 7 (6.5) | 9 (8.4) | 0.2464 |
| JPY 2,000,000–JPY 4,000,000 | 239 | 208 (87.0) | 11 (4.6) | 20 (8.4) | |
| JPY 4,000,000–JPY 6,000,000 | 278 | 228 (82.0) | 15 (5.4) | 35 (12.6) | |
| >JPY 6,000,000 | 376 | 328 (87.2) | 23 (6.1) | 25 (6.7) | |
| Underlying condition | |||||
| One or more | 237 | 206 (86.9) | 13 (5.5) | 20 (8.4) | 0.9543 |
| None | 703 | 651 (85.3) | 43 (5.6) | 69 (9.0) | |
Note: Data are shown as the number of subjects and percentage. In the analysis, those who answered “I thought I would definitely get vaccinated” and “I thought I would probably get vaccinated” were categorized as “acceptant,” those who answered “I wanted to make a decision after seeing what others do” were categorized as “unsure,” and those who answered “I thought I would not probably get vaccinated” and “I thought I would definitely not get vaccinated” were categorized as “hesitant.” Analyses were performed using the chi-square test.