Exploring public's perceptions of the process of using COVID-19 immunity certificates

This collection of documents contains the dataset (anonymous) of a survey the aim of which was to explore public’s perceptions about their experiences of the immunity certification process. Specifically, we aimed to address the following two research questions: 1. What is the perceived level of confidence in performing a series of actions/tasks for demonstrating proof of immunity? 2. What is the level of agreement with a series of statements relevant to operational issues about immunity certificates? We explored the aforementioned questions both for members of the public who had previous experience in the use of immunity certificates for international travel or domestic purposes, and those who while they had proof of immunity they did not have a chance to use their certificates.

To address the aforementioned research questions we ran a UK-wide questionnaire survey (November 2021). The questions of the survey were informed by the findings of a series of focus groups, participatory design workshops and interviews.

We gathered responses from a total of 600 individuals who were demographically representative of the UK population in terms of gender, age, and ethnicity. We excluded 28 participants who failed the attention checks, 2 incomplete responses, and 54 participants who were not fully vaccinated nor had previous COVID-19 infection. The rationale for this decision is that the present study is aimed at members of the public who are eligible to use COVID-19 immunity certificates in the UK, therefore the survey questions are only relevant for those who are immune from COVID-19.