Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 505 (Attitudes on Vaccination against Covid-19, February 2022)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels DG Communication COMM.A.3 ´Media monitoring and Eurobarometer´

Study number / PID

ZA7869, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.13916 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitudes on vaccination against COVID-19.Topics: respondent has been vaccinated against COVID-19; preferred time for getting a booster dose; preferred time for getting vaccinated; importance of each of the following issues with regard to getting vaccinated: vaccine will help to end the pandemic, vaccine will protect respondent from severe forms of disease, vaccine will protect relatives and others from severe forms of disease, vaccine will make it possible to resume a more normal professional life, vaccine will make it possible to travel, vaccine will make it possible to meet family and friends, vaccine will make it possible to go to restaurants, cinemas etc.; importance of each of the following issues with regard to not getting vaccinated: pandemic will be over soon, personal risk of being infected is very low, risk posed by COVID-19 in general is exaggerated, worries about side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, vaccines have not been sufficiently tested yet, vaccines are ineffective, against vaccines in general; factors to increase personal willingness of getting vaccinated: more people around doing it, more people have already been vaccinated and we see that there are no major side-effects, people that recommend the vaccines are vaccinated themselves, doctor recommends respondent to do so, vaccines are developed in the European Union, full clarity on how vaccines are being developed, tested and authorized, respondent is very eager to get vaccinated or is already vaccinated, won’t get vaccinated anyway; attitude towards the following statements on the vaccines: benefits outweigh possible risks, vaccines authorised in the European Union are safe, vaccines are being developed, tested and authorised too quickly to be safe, vaccines could have long term side-effects that we do not know yet, a vaccine is the only way to end the pandemic, no understanding why people are reluctant to get vaccinated, serious diseases have disappeared thanks to vaccines; attitude towards...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

07/02/2022 - 15/02/2022

Country

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Croatia

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Quota
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Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2022

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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