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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of racial/ethnicity minority adults in Rhode Island who completed the contingent valuation survey

From: Incentivizing COVID-19 vaccination among racial/ethnic minority adults in the United States: $209 per dose could convince the hesitant

 

All Survey Respondents

(N = 367)

Vaccination Status of Respondent at Time of Survey Completion

P-value

Unvaccinated

(N = 104)

Vaccinated

(N = 263)

Preferred Language

 English

296 (80.7%)

91 (87.5%)

205 (77.9%)

0.04

 Spanish

71 (19.3%)

13 (12.5%)

58 (22.1%)

Age in years

 18–29

142 (38.7%)

48 (46.2%)

94 (35.7%)

0.18

 30–49

149 (40.6%)

40 (38.5%)

109 (41.4%)

 50–64

66 (18.0%)

15 (14.4%)

51 (19.4%)

 65 + 

10 (2.7%)

1 (1.0%)

9 (3.4%)

Gender

 Female / Transgender Female

282 (76.8%)

86 (82.7%)

196 (74.5%)

0.05

 Male / Transgender Male

82 (22.3%)

16 (15.4%)

66 (25.1%)

 Othera

3 (0.8%)

2 (1.9%)

1 (0.4%)

Black or African American

 Yes

191 (52.0%)

57 (54.8%)

134 (51.0%)

0.51

 No

176 (48.0%)

47 (45.2%)

129 (49.0%)

Hispanic

 Yes

187 (51.0%)

50 (48.1%)

137 (52.1%)

0.49

 No

180 (49.0%)

54 (51.9%)

126 (47.9%)

Main reason for choosing to not get a COVID-19 vaccine

 Concerns about rushed timeline

10 (12%)

10 (12%)

-

 

 Want to wait to confirm the vaccines are safe

25 (30%)

25 (30%)

-

 Don’t trust vaccines generally

12 (15%)

12 (15%)

-

 Want to wait to see how effective the vaccines are

14 (17%)

14 (17%)

-

 Other reasonb

21 (26%)

21 (26%)

 
  1. All demographics characteristics were based on self-report
  2. aThe “Other” gender category includes survey respondents who selected “Gender Non-Confirming”, “Non-Binary”, or “Prefer not to answer”
  3. The P-value indicates whether there was a statistically significant difference at the 0.10 level between vaccinated and unvaccinated survey respondents for the relevant characteristic
  4. bThe “Other reason” category includes any written-in reason. Examples of other reasons survey respondents cited for not getting vaccinated included “Against my religion”, “Breastfeeding still”, “Fear of needles”, as well as fear of adverse reactions and lack of trust in the pharmaceutical companies