Table 3.
Donor characteristics as of 24 January 2022
| Consenting donors (N=15 502) |
Non-consenting donors (N=1796) |
General, adult population* | |||
| Sex,† n (%) | |||||
| Female | 7709 | (49.7) | 831 | (46.3) | (50.2) |
| Age (years),†‡ mean±SD (median) | 43.9±16.8 (43.0) | 46.1±16.7 (48.0) | 50.2±18.8 (50.0) | ||
| Age (years),†‡, n (%) | |||||
| 18–29 | 4399 | (28.4) | 433 | (24.1) | (17.1) |
| 30–39 | 2556 | (16.5) | 269 | (15) | (16.0) |
| 40–49 | 2287 | (14.8) | 251 | (14) | (16.1) |
| 50–59 | 2440 | (15.7) | 335 | (18.7) | (16.1) |
| 60–70 | 3178 | (20.5) | 408 | (22.7) | (18.3) |
| ≥71 | 642 | (4.1) | 100 | (5.6) | (16.4) |
| Self-reported race/ethniticity,†§ n (%) | |||||
| White | 14 517 | (93.6) | 1667 | (92.8) | NA |
| Other | 985 | (6.4) | 129 | (7.2) | NA |
| Health region (#-name),†‡ n (%) | |||||
| 02-Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean | 2234 | (14.4) | 299 | (16.6) | (3.3) |
| 03-Capitale-Nationale | 2811 | (18.1) | 351 | (19.5) | (9.0) |
| 04-Mauricie et Centre-du-Québec | 1771 | (11.4) | 213 | (11.9) | (6.2) |
| 05-Estrie | 2282 | (14.7) | 277 | (15.4) | (5.8) |
| 06-Montréal | 1518 | (9.8) | 103 | (5.7) | (24.4) |
| 07-Outaouais | 1729 | (11.2) | 263 | (14.6) | (4.6) |
| 12-Chaudière-Appalaches | 744 | (4.8) | 100 | (5.6) | (5.0) |
| 13-Laval | 353 | (2.3) | 24 | (1.3) | (5.1) |
| 14-Lanaudière | 252 | (1.6) | 18 | (1) | (6.0) |
| 15-Laurentides | 333 | (2.1) | 22 | (1.2) | (7.4) |
| 16-Montérégie | 1259 | (8.1) | 108 | (6) | (16.6) |
| Regions without fixed centres§ | 126 | (0.8) | <11 | (<0.70)¶ | (6.4) |
| Unknown or outside Québec | 90 | (0.6) | <11 | (<0.70)¶ | NA |
| No of vaccine doses received,†** n (%) | |||||
| 0 | 254 | (1.6) | NA | NA | |
| ≥1 | 14 939 | (96.4) | NA | NA | (91.6) |
| ≥2 | 14 836 | (95.7) | NA | NA | (88.7) |
| >3 | 9561 | (61.7) | NA | NA | (47.1) |
| Missing data†† | 309 | (2.0) | NA | NA | NA |
| Documented COVID-19 infection,†**‡‡ n (%) | |||||
| Yes | 1662 | (10.7) | NA | NA | (5.6) |
| No | 13 531 | (87.3) | NA | NA | (94.4) |
| Missing data†† | 309 | (2.0) | NA | NA | NA |
*For the general population of Québec, various data sources were used to capture variables of interest.
†Demographics (ie, sex, age, self-reported ethnicity and health region) are reported as of 24 January 2022. Data on prior vaccination and documented infection are reported as of 24 January 2022.
‡For the general population, data come from the following: Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec. Estimations et projections de population par territoire sociosanitaire. Available from: https://publications.msss.gouv.qc.ca/msss/document-001617/. Accessed on 10 August 2022.
§Includes 01-Bas-Saint-Laurent, 08-Abitibi-Témiscamingue, 09-Côte-Nord, 10-Nord-du-Québec, 11-Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine, 17-Nunavik.
¶The exact number is lower than 11 and is thus not reported to preserve donor anonymity.
**For the general population, data come from the following: Institut national de santé publique du Québec. Données COVID-19 par âge et sexe - Évolution des cas. Available from: https://www.inspq.qc.ca/COVID-19/donnees/age-sexe/evolution-cas. Accessed on 3 January 2022.
††Missing data are due to mismatches between donor information recorded in our institution’s database and that recorded in governmental databases (N=309).
‡‡Data for the general population are underestimated since the age groups used in publicly available data (see footnote 7) exclude individuals aged 18–19 years.
NA, not available.