![]() ![]() We, as users, cannot send the data to the journal and make them publicly available, as this is against SOEP's statutes (and most likely against the statutes of all providers of micro data). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Our analyses rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an independent scientific data infrastructure established in 1984. Received: OctoAccepted: FebruPublished: May 10, 2021Ĭopyright: © 2021 Graeber et al. PLoS ONE 16(5):Įditor: Valerio Capraro, Middlesex University, UNITED KINGDOM We conclude that as far as people’s declared intentions are concerned, herd immunity could be reached without a policy of mandatory vaccination, but that such a policy might be found acceptable too, were it to become necessary.Ĭitation: Graeber D, Schmidt-Petri C, Schröder C (2021) Attitudes on voluntary and mandatory vaccination against COVID-19: Evidence from Germany. The individual willingness to get vaccinated and acceptance of a policy of mandatory vaccination correlates systematically with socio-demographic and psychological characteristics of the respondents. The approval rate for mandatory vaccination is significantly higher among those who would get vaccinated voluntarily (around 60 percent) than among those who would not get vaccinated voluntarily (27 percent). About half of residents of Germany are in favor, and half against, a policy of mandatory vaccination. Our results show that about 70 percent of adults in Germany would voluntarily get vaccinated against the coronavirus if a vaccine without side effects was available. We investigate the willingness to get vaccinated and the reasons for an acceptance (or rejection) of a policy of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 in June and July 2020 in Germany based on a representative real time survey, a random sub-sample (SOEP-CoV) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). A policy of mandatory vaccination could ensure high levels of vaccination coverage, but its legitimacy is doubtful. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the willingness to get vaccinated might not be sufficiently high to achieve herd immunity. ![]() The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. ![]()
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