LSI Survey: 84.9 Percent Of Respondents Agree With COVID-19 Vaccine Program For Community

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has released public attitudes regarding vaccines. This release is published on the LSI website.

A total of 84.9 percent of respondents feel strongly/agree with the COVID-19 vaccine program for the community.

This survey uses telephone contact with a simple random sampling method. There were 1,200 respondents from all provinces in Indonesia who were randomly selected from March 2018 to June 2021 with a margin of error for this survey of around 2.88 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.

In addition, 90.3 percent of the public know about the government's COVID-19 vaccination program to prevent the spread of the virus.

Then, about 82.6 percent of residents have not been vaccinated. Among those who have not been vaccinated, about 82.6 percent are willing to be vaccinated, while 36.4 percent are not willing.

Furthermore, 68.6 percent of respondents believe that the corona vaccine can prevent us from contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus, while about 23.5 percent do not.

The survey results also explained that the most reasons why people were not willing to be vaccinated were because they were afraid of the side effects as much as 55 percent, then because they judged the vaccine to be ineffective at 25.4 percent, and felt they didn't.

need a vaccine because 19 percent are healthy.

Then, about 4 percent have been asked to give gifts/money outside the official provisions to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Then, about 23.3 percent have suggested/registered/delivered other people (family, friends) to be vaccinated against COVID-19