Jornal de Biometria e Bioestatística

Analysis of Social Factors Influencing Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance Level in Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana Nigeria

Abstract

Awa Obonnaya Dike1, O. Elem-Uche and U. A. Dike

In this paper, the social factors affecting the level of acceptance of covid-19 vaccine in Akanu Ibiam federal polytechnic Unwana was studied. A stratified random sampling was employed to draw samples of staff and students of the polytechnic. The schools were used as strata to make the sample representative. A structured questionnaire was administered to the sample points, their responses were analyzed using a percentages, cross-tabulation chi square test and probit regression model using the following variables: age, sex, religion, tribe, education status and work status to ascertain if any or all of the factors have influence on the level of acceptance of the covid-19 vaccine. From the result obtained, that the acceptance level of Covid-19 vaccine by the respondents is 47.89% a little below average, and the goodness of fit test =219.568 at 5 percent level of significance showed that age, education and work status of respondents influenced the acceptance level of covid-19 positively, which implies that they increase the acceptance level covid-19 vaccine. While sex, religion and tribe affect acceptance of covid-19 vaccine negatively, that is, decreases its acceptance level in the study area. It is therefore recommended that scarcity of the vaccine should be addressed, to make it easily accessible to citizens even to the remote and rural areas.