Current Events > Vaccination rate and voter turnout (Sweden).

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The higher the voter turnout is in an area (regardless of political ideology), the higher the vaccination rate (covid) is. Also, older people are both more likely to vote and more likely to get vaccinated.

It does feel good that vaccination rate is tied to an interest in society rather than party politics. Since that should theoretically make it easier to talk sense into those who have yet to get the jab.

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/redaktionellt/samband-mellan-vaccintackning-och-valdeltagande/

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Interesting but doesn't paint the whole picture. I'd be interested to see this also grouped by party and by socioeconomic status. At a glance, at least socioeconomic status seems to correlate a lot here.

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Any particular reason you dont vote? :)

scar the 1 posted...

Interesting but doesn't paint the whole picture. I'd be interested to see this also grouped by party and by socioeconomic status. At a glance, at least socioeconomic status seems to correlate a lot here.

I dont quite see what type of gotcha youre looking for? The data does not oppose the well known statistical fact that socioeconomic status affect the likelyhood to vote (this data rather confirm that even more): poor people are less likely to vote than people who count as middle-class and upper class. And it is also a well known statistical fact that non-Western immigrants are more likely to be poor and less likely to vote (this is a problem which needed adressing yesterday). If you look at the data links presented in the article it show that areas known for being less affluent, and areas with a high number of non-Western immigrants, are both less likely to vote and less likely to get vaccinated. So thus the outcome with voter turnout and vax rate. Meanwhile, traditional SocDem/Left-wing strongholds in the North got a high voter/vax rate and the same goes for the rich Conservative suburbs outside Stockholm and for the Nationalist strongholds in Skne. Areas where many are invested in politics and go out and vote. The vaccination data coming in during the past year has also consitently showed that more well off areas have a higher vaccination rate. So socioeconomic status is a key part of this - one not denied by this data analysis.

I'm not looking for a gotcha at all. My point is just that framing a study like this without also showing socioeconomic status is misleading. It's interesting that these variables all correlate. But I'm not convinced by the type of conclusion you make in the OP that vaccination rate is tied to an interest in society. And I think that conclusion is harder to make when you include more variables (like socioeconomic status) into the analysis.

About the party grouping, it's just something I'd be interested to see. I think we've discussed it briefly before, where we expect anti-vax fringes all over the political spectrum. But I bet that doesn't necessarily correlate as well with voter turnout.