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Social interactions and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from a full population study in Sweden

We investigate whether an individual’s information milieu―an individual’s residential neighborhood and co-workers―affects the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The decision to accept or refuse a vaccine is intensely personal and involves the processing of information about phenomena likely to be u...

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Autores principales: Klaesson, Johan, Lobo, José, Mellander, Charlotta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37983227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289309
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description We investigate whether an individual’s information milieu―an individual’s residential neighborhood and co-workers―affects the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The decision to accept or refuse a vaccine is intensely personal and involves the processing of information about phenomena likely to be unfamiliar to most individuals. One can thus expect an interplay between an individual’s level of education and skills and the information processing of others whom with whom she can interact and whose decision she can probe and observe. Using individual-level data for adults in Sweden, we can identify the proportion of an individual’s neighborhood and workplace who are unvaccinated as indicators of possible peer effects. We find that individuals with low levels of educational attainment and occupational skills are more likely to be unvaccinated when exposed to other unvaccinated individuals at work and in the residential neighborhood. The peer effects in each of these information milieus further increases the likelihood of not getting vaccinated—with the two acting as information channels that reinforce one another.
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spelling pubmed-106591902023-11-20 Social interactions and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from a full population study in Sweden Klaesson, Johan Lobo, José Mellander, Charlotta PLoS One Research Article We investigate whether an individual’s information milieu―an individual’s residential neighborhood and co-workers―affects the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The decision to accept or refuse a vaccine is intensely personal and involves the processing of information about phenomena likely to be unfamiliar to most individuals. One can thus expect an interplay between an individual’s level of education and skills and the information processing of others whom with whom she can interact and whose decision she can probe and observe. Using individual-level data for adults in Sweden, we can identify the proportion of an individual’s neighborhood and workplace who are unvaccinated as indicators of possible peer effects. We find that individuals with low levels of educational attainment and occupational skills are more likely to be unvaccinated when exposed to other unvaccinated individuals at work and in the residential neighborhood. The peer effects in each of these information milieus further increases the likelihood of not getting vaccinated—with the two acting as information channels that reinforce one another. Public Library of Science 2023-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10659190/ /pubmed/37983227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289309 Text en © 2023 Klaesson et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10659190/
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