Afrobarometer Survey 2022
Round 9
South Africa, 2022
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Reference ID
ZAF_2022_AFB-R9_v01_M
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Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD), Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa (IJR), Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (IREEP), Institute for Development Studies (IDS), Michigan State University (MSU), University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa)
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Q58c. Main reason unlikely to vaccinate (Q58C)
Data file: SAF_R9.data_.final_.wtd_release.30May23.sav
Overview
Valid:
1580
Invalid:
-
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
99
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
1325
End:
1326
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | Missing | 0 |
0%
|
| 1 | COVID doesn’t exist / COVID is not real | 38 |
2.4%
|
| 2 | Not worried about COVID / COVID is not serious or life-threatening/not deadly | 10 |
0.6%
|
| 3 | I am at no risk or low risk for getting COVID / Small chance of contracting COVID | 15 |
0.9%
|
| 4 | I already had COVID and believe I am immune | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 5 | God will protect me | 34 |
2.2%
|
| 6 | Don’t trust the vaccine/worried about getting fake or counterfeit vaccine | 95 |
6%
|
| 7 | Don’t trust the government to ensure the vaccine is safe | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | Vaccine is not safe | 111 |
7%
|
| 9 | Vaccine was developed too quickly | 12 |
0.8%
|
| 10 | Vaccine is not effective / Vaccinated people can still get COVID | 14 |
0.9%
|
| 11 | Vaccine may cause COVID | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 12 | Vaccine may cause infertility | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 13 | Vaccine may cause other bad side effects | 33 |
2.1%
|
| 14 | Vaccines are being used to control or track people | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 15 | People are being experimented on with vaccines | 6 |
0.4%
|
| 16 | Afraid of vaccines in general | 17 |
1.1%
|
| 17 | Allergic to vaccines | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 18 | Don’t like needles | 15 |
0.9%
|
| 19 | Don’t trust the vaccine source / Will wait for other vaccines | 17 |
1.1%
|
| 20 | Effective treatments for COVID are or will be available | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | It is too difficult to get the vaccine, e.g. have to travel far | 3 |
0.2%
|
| 22 | Vaccine will be too expensive | 0 |
0%
|
| 23 | I don’t know how to get the vaccine | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 24 | I will wait until others have been vaccinated | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 25 | I will get the vaccine later | 5 |
0.3%
|
| 26 | Religious objections to vaccines in general or to the COVID vaccine | 2 |
0.1%
|
| 95 | Some other reason | 19 |
1.2%
|
| 97 | Not applicable | 1093 |
69.2%
|
| 98 | Refused to answer | 9 |
0.6%
|
| 99 | Don’t know | 9 |
0.6%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.