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Parents hesitant about vaccinating their children against COVID-19 who say they don't believe children need the vaccine, from two Census Pulse versions about children of any age (December 2021 to 2023).
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: 28% answered “Cited as a reason” in Household Pulse: Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it, 2023.
Shares of everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 everyone asked, including non-answers. 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 8 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| Household Pulse: Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it | Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it Which of the following, if any, are reasons that the parents or guardians of children living in your household [only probably will / probably won't/definitely won't/ are unsure about whether to] get a COVID-19 vaccine for the children? (Select all that apply) Caveat: All children ages; multi-select, so unchecked only means this reason wasn't chosen | equivalent | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Not cited as a reason; Don't believe children need a COVID-19 vaccine → Cited as a reason |
| Household Pulse: Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it | Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it Which of the following, if any, are reasons that the parents or guardians of children living in your household [only probably will / probably won't/definitely won't/ are unsure about whether to] get a COVID-19 vaccine for the children? (Select all that apply) Caveat: All children ages; multi-select, so unchecked only means this reason wasn't chosen | equivalent | Not selected (box left unchecked; respondent checked another option) → Not cited as a reason; Don't believe children need a COVID-19 vaccine → Cited as a reason |
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in Household Pulse: Not vaccinating children: don't believe they need it.
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.