Trinidad and Tobago Country Report - COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Survey Report 2021

Vaccination has emerged as the best possible tool to stem the tide of a pandemic which is having a profoundly negative impact on children and their families.

UNICEF and USAID commissioned Caribbean Development Research Services Inc (CADRES) to conduct a survey on vaccine hesitancy across six countries: Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The study was carried out in October and November 2021 and explores the extent of, and reasons for, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and if anything can be done to change the minds of those reluctant to take the vaccines.

These are the findings for Trinidad and Tobago.

Demographics

The survey was carried out face-to-face. 1,480 participants were surveyed, evenly spread across males and females and three age ranges. 46% said

they were parents. Most were employed, had a secondary-level education and 13% reported being unemployed because of COVID-19.

General findings

65% of respondents said they had been vaccinated. This is the highest level after Barbados. Of all six countries surveyed Trinidad and Tobago was the second least vaccine hesitant, according to the Vaccine Hesitancy Index tool used in the study. The country scored 4.4 on this index where 1 is a perfect score, 3 is the objective score and 10 an imperfect one.