Dominica Country Report - COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy 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 Dominica.

Demographics                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

The Dominica survey was conducted face-to-face with 800 participants, evenly spread across males and females and three age ranges. 58% said they were parents. The majority were employed, had a secondary-level education and 10% said they were unemployed because of COVID-19.

 

General findings                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

 59% of respondents in Dominica said they had been vaccinated. Of the six countries surveyed, Dominica was the third most vaccine hesitant, after St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, according to the Vaccine Hesitancy Index tool used in this study. The country scored 4.7 on this

index where 1 is a perfect score, 3 is the objective score and 10 an imperfect one.