Table 2 Composition of survey respondents by educational attainment and race/ethnicity

From: Unrepresentative big surveys significantly overestimated US vaccine uptake

 

Composition of US adults

Survey estimates

Axios–Ipsos

Household Pulse

Delphi–Facebook

ACS

Household Pulse

Raw

Weighted

Raw

Weighted

Raw

Weighted

Benchmark

Vax

Will

Hes

Education

High school

35%

39%

14%

39%

19%

21%

39%

39%

40%

21%

Some college

29

30

32

30

36

36

30

44

38

18

Four-year college

19

17

29

17

25

25

19

54

36

10

Post-graduate

17

14

26

13

20

18

11

67

26

7

Race/ethnicity

White

71%

63%

75%

62%

74%

68%

60%

50%

33%

17%

Black

10

12

7

11

6

6

12

42

39

19

Hispanic

11

16

10

17

11

16

16

38

48

14

Asian

  

5

5

2

3

6

51

43

5

  1. Axios–Ipsos: wave ending 22 March 2021, n = 995. Census Household Pulse: wave ending 29 March 2021, n = 76,068. Delphi–Facebook: wave ending 27 March 2021, n = 181,949. Benchmark uses the 2019 US Census American Community Survey (ACS), composed of roughly 3 million responses. The rightmost column shows estimates of vaccine uptake (Vax), willingness (Will) and hesitancy (Hes) from the Census Household Pulse of the same wave.
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