Attitudes towards SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, 2020: Probability panel

In December 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine was first approved in the Western world. However the effectiveness of national vaccination plans depends on the willingness of the population to get vaccinated. Previous research on vaccine hesitancy has shown various factors that influence the decision to vaccinate such as gender, age, education, socioeconomic status, profession, experience with vaccinations, experience with the disease, and trust in experts. To better understand attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination, a survey on a probability sample of members of the JazVem online survey panel that is representing the Slovenian population, was conducted. In total, 516 panel members participated. Questionnaire was also used in a survey on a large online nonprobability sample conducted by students of Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor ((ADP - IDNo: SARSPR20). In addition to the questions from the present research, data file also contains sets of questions of other content (housing conditions, employment, household and income, shopping and fuel use, internet and lifestyle, elections, smoking), which were part of individual surveys within the panel during the year 2020, however, questionnaires are not available. The file is accessible under special conditions i.e. on request in two versions: as Scientific use file (SUF - partially anonymized and available for research purposes only) and Secure use file (SCUF - non-anonymized, available for scientific research only and accessible to registered researchers). Additionally, a file with answers to two open questions is available in two versions, as a Public use file (PUF - anonymized and with no possibility of linking responses with units in data file) and on request as a Scientific use file (SUF - possibility to link responses with units in the file).