According to an assessment by Statistics Austria, 14.7% of the Austrian population is neither vaccinated nor recovered. Factors such as education, age and country of origin play a crucial role.
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In Austria, at the end of March, 52.3% of the population had a valid vaccination certificate without having been infected with the corona virus. Another 17.2% were vaccinated but were also infected with Corona. The impact agreed to it 69.5 percent. In addition, there are 15.7 percent of unvaccinated recovered. keep it 14.7 percent of the population that neither vaccinated nor recovered were, as an analysis by Statistics Austria shows. That’s the equivalent of 1.32 million people.
The proportion of those who had a valid vaccination or recovery certificate has increased by about three percentage points since the end of February. The main reason for this was high austrian statisticsthat in March it was mainly people who had not been vaccinated before who became infected. This led to a Increase in recovery certificates during the omicron wave.
The situation was different with valid vaccination certificates: The proportion of people with vaccination certificate same was from end of february to end of march drop of 0.6 percentage points, as more vaccination certificates expired than were added. “One of the reasons for this is that people have to wait longer for the next vaccination after a Covid 19 illness. Therefore, due to the high number of infections, simply looking at the vaccination rate would give an incomplete picture,” emphasized Statistics Austria. . in a broadcast on Friday.
Availability to vaccinate by country of origin
A Look at the Vaccination Rate Provides Remarkable Results after individual countries of origin. in Austria born people this is attached 70.4 percent. significant more vaccinate They are in China is at Will men and women born with a vaccination rate of 79.4 and 79.2 percent, respectively. Those born in the Czech Republic (75.4%), those born in Germany (74.5%), those born in Italy (73.1%) and those born in Turkey (70.5%) are also above average. The willingness to vaccinate is also high among Afghans, who have often fled their home country to Austria and enjoy asylum status, with a vaccination rate of 69%. For Syrians, for whom the same applies, the vaccination rate is only 58.9%.
From the countries of origin reported by Statistics Austria born in romania die lower vaccination rate in. It’s only 50.5%. People in Russia (51.8%) are not much more willing to vaccinate against Covid-19. Less than 60% are also native Bulgarians (54.2%), people from Slovakia (57.6%), Poland (58.0), Hungary (58.2) and Serbia (59.1).
Many children have recovered
Among children who were vaccinated against Covid-19 much later than adults, the proportion of those who recovered is comparatively high. The Omikron-Variant so there’s a significant proportion of children “caught”. At the end of March, 21% of children aged between five and nine had already been vaccinated, but another 40% of this age group had only a certificate of recovery. The proportion of children aged between ten and 14 who only recovered was similarly high, but here another 41 percent already had a valid vaccination certificate. Among adolescents and adults aged 15 years and over of all age groups, between 89 and 92 percent had their vaccination and/or certificate of recovery up to date. This percentage was higher for people between 75 and 84 years oldwhere round 89 percent vaccinated or were vaccinated and recovered. Only about three percent have recovered.
Education as an important factor
The proportions of people with up-to-date vaccination records and/or recovery certificates differ significantly according to the complete higher education. This proportion is 86% for people aged 25 to 64 who have completed compulsory education and 93% for people with a university degree, with people with higher academic level tends to be more common in vaccination certificate and people with lowest grade more often about a recovery certificate feature.
If the same age group is differentiated according to their employment situation, it can be seen that about 92 percent of those who were employed and about 84 percent of those who did not work had their vaccination and/or recovery records up to date. paid employee are both vaccinated more often (almost 77 percent) as well as exclusively recovered (almost 16 percent) as unemployed (almost 72 percent vaccinated, almost 13 percent recovered exclusively).
Within the group of busy people of all ages there are differences between sectors. Public administration has the highest overall proportion of people with a valid vaccination and/or recovery certificate (96 percent). There are also differences in terms of Risk of contagion in the sectors. In information and communication, about a third of all employees have been affected by a corona infection in the last six months. In health and social assistance, it reached 43%.