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Confidence in efficiency of Covid-19 vaccine rollout
Q. How confident are you in each of the following?
That the rollout of vaccinations against Covid-19 in Australia will be done efficiently
Total | Gender | Age Group | Federal Voting Intention | |||||||||
Male | Female | 18-34 | 35-54 | 55+ | Labor | TOTAL: Coalition | Greens | TOTAL: Other | ||||
Very confident | 19% | 23% | 16% | 16% | 21% | 20% | 15% | 29% | 18% | 16% | ||
Fairly confident | 48% | 45% | 51% | 44% | 47% | 53% | 50% | 49% | 48% | 48% | ||
Not that confident | 19% | 21% | 17% | 27% | 16% | 16% | 22% | 14% | 22% | 21% | ||
Not confident at all | 7% | 7% | 7% | 7% | 9% | 5% | 7% | 5% | 8% | 13% | ||
Unsure | 6% | 4% | 8% | 6% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 2% | ||
TOTAL: Confident | 68% | 68% | 67% | 60% | 68% | 73% | 65% | 78% | 66% | 64% | ||
TOTAL: Not confident | 26% | 28% | 25% | 34% | 25% | 21% | 29% | 18% | 30% | 34% | ||
Base (n) | 1,092 | 532 | 560 | 318 | 391 | 383 | 361 | 400 | 97 | 126 | ||
- While confidence in the efficiency of the Covid-19 rollout is relatively high across all demographics, those who are older are more confident than younger cohorts (73% of those over 55 are confident, followed by 68% those 35-54 and 60% those 18-34).
- Out of all voters, Coalition voters are the most confident that the vaccine rollout will be efficient, with 78% who are confident and of this, nearly a third (29%) who are very confident.

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