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Table 3 Bivariate correlations and descriptive statistics

From: Mistrust in government and COVID-19 vaccination acceptance in Nigeria: investigating the indirect roles of attitudes towards vaccination

N = 538

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Sex (1)

             

Age (2)

−0.13a

            

Marital status (3)

−.09b

0.64a

           

Occupation (4)

0.11a

−0.61a

−0.66

          

Education (5)

.03

−.06

−0.10b

0.13a

         

Religion (6)

.05

−.09

−0.12b

.04

.08b

        

Residence (7)

.05

.03

.04

−.06b

.04

−.06

       

Mistrust in the govt. (8)

.01

−.05

−.01

.03

.06b

0.10a

−.03

      

Future effect of vaccine (9)

−.07b

−.03

−.06

−.02

.04

0.10a

0.11a

0.18a

     

Vaccine mistrust (10)

.06

.09a

.09a

−.08b

−.01

.08

−.04

0.16a

0.10a

    

Natural immunity (11)

−.02

.04

.05

−.07

−.01

.004

−.04

.07b

0.20a

0.18a

   

Commercial profiteering (12)

−.02

−.06

−.09

.03

.04

.04

−.004

0.25a

0.40a

0.25a

0.38a

  

Acceptance (13)

−.07

−.003

.01

−.01

−.07

−.07b

−.01

−0.20a

−0.11a

−0.56a

−0.11a

−0.23a

 

Mean

       

6.23

10.74

9.53

8.76

9.84

2.62

SD

       

1.23

2.62

3.32

2.58

2.90

1.32

Skewness

       

−2.18

−0.60

.01

0.13

−0.16

0.19

Kurtosis

       

5.03

.02

−0.96

−0.45

−0.54

−1.14

  1. aCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). bCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). Gender (0 = male, 1 = female); marital status (0 = married, 1 = unmarried); education (0 = others, 1 = tertiary education); occupation (0 = others, 1 = students); religion (0 = others, 1 = Christianity); residence (0 = rural, 1 = urban)