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Adults who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine and say they do not trust the government, from the original and revised Census Pulse reason items.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 64% answered “Does not cite it” in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave (or one year’s average, for frequent series), evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government.
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government | Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government Which of the following, if any, are reasons that you [only probably will /probably won't/definitely won't/ are unsure about whether to] [get a COVID-19 vaccine/won't receive all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine]? (Select all that apply) Caveat: Same wording in the revised item set, but the surrounding option list may differ across survey phases. Select-all, so unchecked is not an explicit no. | equivalent | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Does not cite it; I don't trust the government → Cites distrust of government as a reason |
| Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government | Vaccine reluctance: doesn't trust the government Which of the following, if any, are reasons that you [only probably will /probably won't/definitely won't/ are unsure about whether to] [get a COVID-19 vaccine/won't receive all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine]? (Select all that apply) Caveat: Select-all item; unchecked means the reason was not selected, not an explicit no | identical | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Does not cite it; I don't trust the government → Cites distrust of government as a reason |
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.