Since President Emmanuel Macron’s announcements, the “anti pass” have multiplied demonstrations all over France.
- Since the start of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in France, 39,474,866 people have received at least one injection (i.e. 58.5% of the total population) and 32,790,372 people now have a complete vaccination schedule (i.e. 48.6% of the total population).
- As of July 23, 2021, nearly 68,800,000 injections have been performed.
While new rallies are planned this Saturday, July 24 throughout France to protest against the health pass and the vaccination obligation for caregivers, what do the polls say about the sociological profile of these recalcitrants?
The popular classes are the most refractory
16% of French people have no “not intending to get vaccinated”, according to a recent Ecoscope OpinionWay – Les Echos survey. The most anti-vaccine are mostly women, young people under 35 and people from working class backgrounds. 24% of workers and employees do not intend to be vaccinated against Covid-19, i.e. double the CSP+.
Another survey by Inserm and the older CNRS gives similar results: 17% of workers said last November that they would definitely not get vaccinated against the coronavirus, compared to 8% of senior managers.
“Convince rather than threaten”
“The lower you are in the social hierarchy, the more reluctant you are to vaccination in general and against the anti-coronavirus vaccine in particular”, explain in Les Echos the authors of the study.
According to the co-director of the survey Alexis Spire, the extension of the health pass will probably not affect these refractory to vaccination. “A whole part of the population does not go to restaurants, to the cinema, to the theater, do not take the train, nor the plane”, he recalls. “To reach the reluctant of the working classes, the working class and peri-urban areas, it would be better to try to convince rather than threaten”, he concludes.
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