A telephone survey was conducted from 15 to 26 July 2021 by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to gauge public views about COVID-19 and epidemic prevention. Of the respondents, 54.3% believed that the government should relax current countermeasures for those who are vaccinated.<\/p>\r\n
Major findings are summarised as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n The survey found that 54.3% of the respondents believed that the government should relax current countermeasures for those who are vaccinated. Meanwhile, 37.2% did not think so. In addition, 40.1% of the respondents thought the current countermeasures by the government should remain the same, 39.6% thought the government should endorse a relaxation of the current countermeasures, and 13.7% would like them to be tightened. Compared to the same survey series conducted in May 2021, a statistical analysis (Chi-squared test) found no significant difference in percentage distribution of the two surveys.<\/p>\r\n In terms of the intention to get vaccinated, 44.5% of the respondents had already done so, 17.8% answered that they would be getting the vaccination, 15.9% said they would not get vaccinated, while 21.8% had not decided yet. The major reasons for not getting vaccinated or not having a decision yet were \u201cphysically unfit for vaccination due to medical reasons\u201d (37.1%), \u201cafraid of serious side effects of vaccine\u201d (28.2%), and \u201cCOVID-19 is not serious in Hong Kong \/ low probability of getting infected\u201d (14.0%). Lastly, reasons with \u201cdistrust the government\u201d and \u201clow vaccine efficacy\u201d took up 10.8% and 9.4%, respectively.<\/p>\r\n In addition, 46.7% of the respondents agreed that the most efficient measure to counter epidemics was to get most citizens vaccinated, while 14.4% of them disagreed, and 34.2% answered \u201chalf-half\u201d.<\/p>\r\n Lastly, the respondents were generally unworried about being infected with COVID-19.\u00a0 Over half of the respondents (53.4%) were not worried at all, and 36.1% said that they were somewhat worried. Only 6.9% and 2.8% were \u201cquite worried\u201d and \u201cvery worried\u201d, respectively. Compared to the same survey series conducted in May 2021, a statistical analysis (Chi-squared test) found that there is no significant difference in percentage distribution of the two surveys.<\/p>\r\n The survey employed a dual-frame sampling design that included both landline and mobile phone numbers. A total of 706 respondents aged 18 or above (landline: 350; mobile: 356) were successfully interviewed, with response rates of 28.1% (landline) and 31.9% (mobile). The sampling error is estimated at plus or minus 3.69 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Weighting of survey data was based on the probability of the respondents being selected via dual-frame sampling design and relevant age-sex distribution of the population published by the Census and Statistics Department.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":[{"text":"Attachment (Chinese version only)","link":"","file":117228}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117232,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/117229\/revisions\/117232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}