Study: 81.7% of respondents ready for COVID-19 vaccination

The study was carried out through telephone connections on participants chosen at random

Jakarta – In a survey carried out by the Indonesian General Election Research Study (LKPI), 81.7 percent of the respondents have stated they are all set to get COVID-19 vaccine doses under the government’s immunization program.

The study has actually likewise suggested that 76.6 percent of the respondents are pleased with and positive in the ongoing national financial recovery efforts, which are expected to assist improve the economy that has actually been damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, LKPI executive director Arifin Nur Cahyono said in a composed statement released on Saturday.

Just 18.7 percent of the respondents have said they are not pleased with the nationwide economic healing efforts given that they have had no positive influence on the people’s economy. 4.7 percent of the participants refrained from answering.

Cahyono said 71.8 percent of the participants are satisfied with the federal government’s efforts to handle and avoid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The survey, which was conducted from December 20 to 27, 2020, covered 1,225 participants in 34 provinces in the nation.

Sampling was done utilizing a mix-mode approach since the research was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited face-to-face interviews.

” Therefore, the survey was conducted through telephone connections on respondents chosen at random,” Cahyono said.

The phone study employed interviewers trained to ask concerns and record responses on the computer system, he added.

The study has a margin of mistake of 2.8 percent at a 95- percent level of self-confidence, he notified.

On the other hand, the federal government has started listing the very first stage recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine after millions of dosages from Sinovac arrived in Indonesia recently, spokesperson for vaccine-related affairs at the Health Ministry, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said on Saturday.

” There are numerous preparations that we are doing, among which is [obtaining] the target information. We will begin with [releasing] instructional content by means of SMS (brief message service) on 31 December, 2020,” Nadia said when contacted by ANTARA from Jakarta on Saturday.

Earlier, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin had stated the federal government prepares to disperse COVID-19 vaccines to all provinces in Indonesia without delay.

He said he hoped the vaccination program for health employees might be begun before the community went back to work in January.

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