Table 3.

Factors contributing to differences in vaccine hesitancy between U.S.-born White adults and other groups.

	U.S.-born Whites versus:
	U.S.-born Blacks		Foreign-born Hispanics		U.S.-born Hispanics
Vaccine hesitancy
Group mean	3.21		3.01		2.84
U.S.-born White mean	2.87		2.87		2.87
Difference	0.34	***	0.14		−0.03
Explained by compositional differences	0.32	***	0.16		0.24	***
Anti-vaccine beliefs (subtotal)	0.24	***	0.11		0.14	**
Government is not telling truth about risks	0.09	***	0.15	*	0.05
Vaccine causes infertility	0.00		0.00		0.02
People of my race/ethnicity need to be careful	0.04	*	0.01		0.01
Vaccine gives people Covid-19	0.02	*	−0.01		0.01
Vaccine developed too quickly	0.09	***	−0.04		0.05
Covid-19 risks and experiences (subtotal)	−0.02		−0.09		−0.07	**
Friends/family had Covid-19 or died of Covid-19	−0.01		−0.06		−0.09	***
Employed outside home	0.00		−0.02		0.00
Health condition puts respondent at risk	−0.01		−0.02		0.02
Other demographics and political affiliation (subtotal)	0.10	***	0.14	*	0.17	***
Male	0.02		0.00		0.01
Age	0.11	***	0.08		0.15	***
College+	0.04	***	0.06	*	0.06	***
Liberal political leanings	−0.06	***	0.00		−0.06	***
Unexplained	0.01		−0.02		−0.26	**

Notes: Estimates are components of a multivariate decomposition analysis (see text for details). The data were collected as part of the COVID-19 and its Implications for American Communities (CIAC) survey in February and March 2021. The sample is restricted to unvaccinated adults ages 18–65 who identify as U.S.-born White, U.S.-born Black, U.S.-born Hispanic, or foreign-born Hispanic (N = 1936). Asterisks indicate significant differences from zero (*p < .10, **p < .05, ***p < .01).