August 8, 2022
In July 2022, Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF surveyed 1,847 U.S. adults online/by telephone for a nationally representative sample. “Interviews were conducted in English (n=1760) and in Spanish (n=87). The sample includes 1,585 adults reached through the SSRS Opinion Panel either online (n=1545) or over the phone (n=40), including an oversample of parents with a child under age 5 (n=471) and parents with a child in another age group (n=757). Another 250 interviews were conducted from a random digit dial telephone sample of prepaid cell phone numbers obtained through MSG. The combined cell phone and panel samples were weighted to match the sample’s demographics to the national U.S. adult population using data from the Census Bureau’s 2021 Current Population Survey (CPS). “
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The KFF survey findings included:
- “Parents of children, ages 6 months through 4 years old remain reluctant to vaccinate their child. More than four in ten parents of children in this age group say they will “definitely not” get their child vaccinated for COVID-19. Republican or Republican leaning parents (64%) and parents who are themselves unvaccinated (64%) are particularly likely to say they will “definitely not” vaccinate their youngest children”.
- “Parents cite concerns about the newness of the vaccine and not enough testing or research, concerns over side effects, and worries over the overall safety of the vaccines”
- “Slight majority (53%) of parents of the youngest children view the vaccine as a bigger risk to their child’s health than getting infected with COVID-19. The share saying the vaccine is a bigger risk rises to 73% among Republican and Republican-leaning parents, 71% among parents who are unvaccinated themselves, and 67% among parents whose child has previously tested positive for COVID-19”
- “Vaccine uptake among children ages 5-11 also appears to have slowed with four in ten parents saying their child in that age group has gotten the vaccine – similar to the share in April. Nearly three in ten parents of 12 to 17 year-olds and nearly four in ten parents of 5 to 11 year-olds say they definitely will not get their child vaccinated for COVID-19
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