Majority favour Covid vaccination

Flemish are more positive about vaccine than Walloons; half of non-vaccinated people do not want to be vaccinated. The Vrije Universiteit Brussel and VUB spin-off iCense conducted a survey among Belgians to find out people's reasons for choosing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or not. The results show that the majority of the population is positive towards the vaccination, that there is a difference according to where people live and their education levels, and that most of those rejecting the vaccination do so out of concern about side effects and because they do not believe the information they are given about the injection. "Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have seen a division in the population. An ingroup and outgroup, which, precisely because of this contradiction, has clung to its belief in its position. Through this study, we understand both groups and what drives them much better," says Timothy Desmet, co-founder of iCense and a member of the VUB research group Marketing and Consumer Behavior. A representative sample of 1,030 people was used, categorised according to age, gender, region and level of education, and an online survey was carried out that took approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete.