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Vaccine hesitancy and resistance among parents

By the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States

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● Parents are more vaccine hesitant and resistant than non-parents (in terms of willingness to vaccinate themselves) across all socioeconomic and demographic groups we compared. However, this pattern is largely driven by younger mothers, who are far more vaccine resistant than younger women who are not mothers. Older parents and fathers show little difference from their non-parent peers. 

● Parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children closely matches their willingness to get vaccinated themselves. Mothers are far more reluctant than fathers to do both. 

● Parents without a 4-year college degree are far more likely to be vaccine hesitant and resistant than their counterparts with a 4-year college degree or higher. Among the more highly educated, parents and non-parents hold similar views. 

● Parents who earn less than $75,000 per year are far more reluctant to get vaccinated than their non-parents counterparts. The gap is far smaller in households earning over $75,000 per year. 

● Parents of all races are more reluctant than non-parents to get vaccinated themselves, but this gap is largest among African American parents, nearly three quarters of whom are vaccine hesitant or resistant. 

● We see similar gaps between parents and non-parents across party and regional lines, and between urban, suburban, and rural residents. 

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March
2021
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