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Adults who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine and plan to wait and see if it is safe, 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: 79% answered “Not selected as a reason” in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe, 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, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe.
Groups differ from everyone by 3 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe.
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, and changes run from each group’s first wave to its last.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe | Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe 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: Revised-survey version of the same select-all item; wording and filter match, but timing differs | equivalent | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Not selected as a reason; I plan to wait and see if it is safe and may get it later → Selected: plans to wait and see if it is safe |
| Household Pulse: Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe | Vaccine reluctance: waiting to see if it is safe 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 does not mean the reason was rejected | identical | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Not selected as a reason; I plan to wait and see if it is safe and may get it later → Selected: plans to wait and see if it is safe |
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.