Note: this survey was conducted in February, before vaccination had started in earnest.

This survey from Leading Tech looked at COVID-19 vaccine awareness.

Note also that an overused trope about Japan is its vaccine reluctance with respect to COVID-19 in particular. I attribute this to lazy journalism, as most of the evidence I have seen points to a general acceptance of the necessity of this vaccine, and Japan is not an outlier given that many other countries are finding the last 30-40% of the population difficult to reach, and lets not talk about the politicisation of it in the USA…

As noted above, since the survey was conducted vaccination of the over-sixties has begun without much incident or excessive dwelling by the press on side-effects, and hopefully within a couple of months we can see a significant decrease in serious cases and deaths, this persuading more people that the jab is worth it. In fact, on this evening’s television there was a short report of the latest figures showing even in the youngest age group about 45% wanted to get vaccinated soon, 35% were waiting to see how things go, and just 20% not planning to get it.

For myself, I’ll be getting it as soon as they open up appointments for my age group, which might be mid-August or so. My workplace is also planning on conducting vaccination of the staff, but I don’t know how long it will take to get it all set up.

Research results

Q1: Do you want to get the COVID-19 vaccine? (Sample size=1,200)

Yes (to SQ1)
62.8%
No (to SQ2)
37.3%

By age group

 
Yes
No
20s or younger
N=279
51.6%
48.4%
30s
N=472
62.3%
37.7%
40s
N=305
67.9%
32.1%
50s or older
N=142
74.6%
25.4%

By information sources

 
Yes
No
Television
N=1,020
64.8%
35.2%
News site, app
N=768
64.4%
35.6%
Newspaper
N=260
62.7%
37.3%
Radio
N=74
60.8%
39.2%
LINE
N=96
59.4%
40.6%
Twitter
N=285
57.2%
42.8%
Instagram
N=40
47.5%
52.5%
Blog
N=24
45.8%
54.2%
Friends and family
N=252
55.6%
44.4%
Other
N=45
55.6%
44.4%

By household makeup

 
Yes
No
Live alone
N=229
60.3%
39.7%
With spouse only
N=212
64.2%
35.8%
One child
N=238
64.7%
35.3%
Two children
N=219
66.7%
33.3%
Three children
N=56
67.9%
32.1%
Other
N=246
57.3%
42.7%

By smoking/non-smoking

 
Yes
No
Non-smoker
N=1,026
63.3%
36.7%
Smoker
N=174
59.8%
40.2%

By underlying conditions

 
Yes
No
Underlying condition
N=148
69.6%
30.4%
No underlying condition
N=1,052
61.8%
38.2%

By perceived risk

 
Yes
No
May be serious
N=611
65.6%
34.4%
Not be serious
N=589
59.8%
40.2%

By knowing COVID-19 patients

 
Yes
No
Yes
61.8%
38.2%
No
63.0%
37.0%

Q1SQ1: What is the main reason for wanting to get the vaccine? (Sample size=753)

Protect myself
48.6%
Protect those around me
45.5%
Necessary for work
5.3%
Other
0.5%

Q1SQ2: What is the main reason for not wanting to get the vaccine? (Sample size=447)

Scared of side effects
45.0%
Doubt its effectiveness
23.8%
Don’t want to inject foreign matter
9.2%
Scared of needles
7.5%
Worried about infection at vaccination centre
7.2%
Too much bother
3.4%
Conspiracy by powers-that-be
1.1%
Other
2.9%

Demographics

Between the 19th and 22nd of February 2021, 1,200 people from 18 years old and upwards successfully completed an online survey. 0.8% in their teens, 22.5% in their twenties, 39.4% in their thirties, 25.5% in their forties, 9.9% in their fifties, 1.7% in their sixties and 0.3% in their seventies. 34.1% were full-time company employees, 24.5% homemakers (“housewife” was the term used), 15.3% part-time, 7.0% self-employed, 6.7% unemployed or retired, 5.1% contract employees, 4.1% students, 0.5% civil servants, and 2.8% others.


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