79% of Brazilians support vaccination of children aged 5 to 11, says Datafolha

Vaccination against Covid for children aged 5 to 11 years is supported by 79% of the Brazilian population aged 16 and over, indicates a survey by Datafolha.

This percentage is equivalent to 132.5 million people in the country. Those who reject immunization for this public are, therefore, a minority in Brazil (17%). Those who do not know how to give an opinion on the issue add up to 4%.

The survey was carried out by telephone on January 12 and 13, with 2,023 people aged 16 and over in all Brazilian states. The margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.

Among those who agree with the immunization of the age group from 5 to 11 years are 83% of the women heard in the survey and 75% of the men. In contrast, 22% of men said that children should not be vaccinated against 13% of women.

The rate of opposites is prevalent in the age group between 35 and 44 years (22%), with complete secondary education (21%) and among the richest (28%).

In the Southeast of the country, 83% think that children should be vaccinated, compared to 14%. In the South, the rates are 72% and 21%, respectively. In the Northeast, 78% are in favor and 18% against, and in the Center-West/North region (the survey grouped these two parts of Brazil) it has 77% in favor and 20% against.

To Datafolha, of the total number of respondents, 29% declared themselves responsible for children between 5 and 11 years of age.

Within this group, 76%, the equivalent of 36.9 million people responsible for Brazilians aged 5 to 11, said they intend to take their children to take the vaccine against the coronavirus.

On the opposite side, saying that they will not take them for vaccination, there are 8.4 million people responsible for minors who could participate in this new stage of the PNI (National Immunization Program) campaign.

Considering the total number of people interviewed in the survey (including those responsible and not responsible for children aged 5 to 11 years), this group that announces that they will immunize their little ones is 22%.

Those who are responsible for children between the ages of 5 and 11 and say they will not let them be vaccinated make up 5% of the overall picture. Those responsible who say they do not know what they will do about the vaccination of their children from 5 to 11 years old are 2% of the total interviewed.

The Northeast and Southeast regions concentrate most of those responsible who intend to take children to vaccinate, with 24% and 23%, respectively.

Regarding whether or not children go to school at this time of the pandemic, of those interviewed in general, 53% said they were in favor, which corresponds to 88.9 million Brazilians, while 44% said that parents and guardians should not take their little ones to school. the college currently and 4% did not know how to answer this question.