Table 1 Four COVID-19 prevention and testing indicators disaggregated by education: median national and disaggregated estimates (%) and 95% confidence intervals, globally and by country income group (UMD-CTIS, June–December 2021)
Indicator | Income group | National average | Education | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# countries | National average | # countries | No education | Less than primary school | Primary education | Secondary education | High school education | Higher education | Post-graduate education | ||
Believe that social distancing and/or wearing a face mask is very or moderately effective for preventing the spread of COVID-19 | Global | 90 | 89.9 (88.4–91.9) | 47 | 79.6 (76.2–84.6) | 85.9 (82.6–89.1) | 90.5 (87.8–92.2) | 91.0 (87.4–92.6) | 91.2 (87.3–93.0) | 93.2 (91.0–94.6) | 94.3 (91.1–95.7) |
High income | 33 | 89.2 (87.4–91.3) | 20 | 76.3 (72.8–79.6) | 82.8 (81.6–87.9) | 88.3 (84.6–90.5) | 87.1 (85.9–91.3) | 86.6 (85.0–93.0) | 90.8 (88.7–93.2) | 90.9 (88.7–94.7) | |
Upper middle income | 29 | 90.2 (82.7–93.5) | 16 | 87.2 (83.0–91.3) | 90.3 (82.3–91.6) | 92.1 (90.4–93.5) | 92.7 (88.7–93.1) | 92.5 (89.2–93.3) | 94.6 (92.2–95.4) | 95.7 (94.0–96.6) | |
Low and lower middle income | 28 | 91.4 (83.8–94.0) | 11 | 77.7 (68.4–92.9) | 85.4 (69.8–96.1) | 90.1 (70.6–93.7) | 91.4 (80.2–94.1) | 93.3 (82.7–95.1) | 94.0 (86.5–97.0) | 95.5 (88.5–96.9) | |
Use of mask all or most of the time in public in the past 7 days | Global | 90 | 79.2 (75.5–87.7) | 65 | 75.0 (68.2–79.0) | 76.4 (71.2–81.3) | 81.3 (73.1–85.8) | 83.1 (74.1–86.7) | 83.4 (75.7–88.2) | 84.8 (78.6–91.2) | 87.1 (79.4–91.3) |
High income | 33 | 76.7 (63.9–85.0) | 25 | 75.1 (61.7–79.2) | 76.4 (65.3–83.2) | 77.1 (63.3–85.3) | 77.2 (64.1–86.4) | 78.1 (63.1–84.1) | 78.8 (65.1–85.9) | 79.2 (66.7–86.0) | |
Upper middle income | 29 | 86.1 (74.8–93.8) | 23 | 75.0 (68.2–84.1) | 84.9 (72.1–88.5) | 87.1 (71.6–90.4) | 86.7 (72.7–92.2) | 87.4 (74.8–93.4) | 91.5 (77.2–95.6) | 93.5 (80.4–96.5) | |
Low and lower middle income | 28 | 82.3 (72.7–91.0) | 17 | 73.9 (62.1–81.7) | 74.4 (61.1–78.6) | 79.5 (64.5–88.3) | 83.1 (64.4–89.2) | 87.8 (68.7–91.5) | 90.9 (74.6–94.3) | 92.6 (76.8–95.4) | |
Avoided contact with other people all or most of the time | Global | 90 | 43.9 (40.2–48.3) | 68 | 44.4 (41.6–47.5) | 48.6 (43.0–51.8) | 46.2 (42.5–51.3) | 44.1 (40.2–49.0) | 44.1 (39.6–51.8) | 45.3 (40.6–55.0) | 46.2 (42.3–56.3) |
High income | 33 | 35.8 (30.2–42.0) | 26 | 41.8 (35.8–44.5) | 42.5 (39.3–51.4) | 43.2 (33.6–49.4) | 38.4 (30.4–43.6) | 37.6 (29.4–42.2) | 34.6 (27.2–41.0) | 34.6 (31.7–41.5) | |
Upper middle income | 29 | 55.1 (39.9–59.9) | 24 | 47.4 (44.3–53.2) | 51.8 (43.3–57.1) | 55.7 (43.0–59.2) | 54.7 (40.2–59.3) | 54.5 (40.3–59.0) | 57.3 (43.1–62.5) | 58.9 (44.5–66.2) | |
Low and lower middle income | 28 | 52.6 (45.3–58.2) | 18 | 46.1 (39.6–54.9) | 49.9 (39.9–54.2) | 45.3 (39.5–58.9) | 45.1 (41.0–60.0) | 51.9 (44.7–59.8) | 57.5 (49.8–64.8) | 58.1 (52.4–67.6) | |
Tested for COVID-19 in the last 14 days | Global | 90 | 15.2 (13.5–16.4) | 68 | 22.2 (19.0–24.7) | 18.8 (15.9–21.7) | 14.5 (13.3–17.0) | 14.6 (13.0–16.5) | 14.5 (12.5–16.1) | 14.6 (13.0–16.5) | 16.0 (14.9–17.6) |
High income | 33 | 16.5 (14.6–20.2) | 26 | 20.9 (16.2–24.9) | 16.9 (15.1–20.7) | 13.6 (10.9–17.1) | 13.8 (11.1–19.0) | 15.5 (11.1–19.0) | 16.5 (12.1–22.2) | 17.6 (15.1–24.0) | |
Upper middle income | 29 | 14.6 (13.0–16.8) | 24 | 21.0 (18.6–25.1) | 18.9 (14.4–25.6) | 15.5 (12.7–17.8) | 14.7 (12.7–17.5) | 13.9 (12.0–16.2) | 13.6 (12.4–16.6) | 15.7 (13.7–17.6) | |
Low and lower middle income | 28 | 13.0 (11.5–15.9) | 18 | 26.4 (16.1–35.9) | 21.9 (12.6–34.7) | 17.2 (13.1–24.5) | 16.3 (11.4–20.6) | 13.9 (10.3–17.8) | 12.6 (10.4–17.1) | 14.4 (11.3–19.8) | |