HHS COVID-19 Monthly Outcome Survey: Vaccine Uptake and Intentions

U.S. adults were surveyed monthly from January 2021 to April 2023 as part of a cross-sectional online omnibus. The survey tracks COVID-19 vaccine uptake, readiness, and hesitancy, later expanding to include parental intentions for child vaccination and booster doses. Columns suggest data on beliefs, behaviors, and demographic variables like age, race, income, and urbanicity.

Use Cases

• Tracking parental vaccine uptake for children aged 6 months to 4 years using BSTR5_Par_Uptake_6mo4_1 and BSTR5_Par_Uptake_6mo4_2.
• Analyzing associations between vaccine hesitancy (CAM6_VaccWait) and demographic factors like race, income, and political ideology (politicalideo).
• Modeling the relationship between mental health indicators (CV12_1_Nervous, CV11_3_Depressed) and vaccination intentions.
• Assessing geographic and urban-rural (xurbanicity) disparities in vaccine readiness (BSTR4_Readiness) and uptake (CAM5_VaccUptake).
• Evaluating the impact of public health messaging (CV5_5_Video) on beliefs about vaccination (CAM7_VaccBel_1).

Strengths

• The survey has a large, repeated cross-sectional design with approximately 5,000 U.S. adult respondents each month.
• Covers a specific and critical 28-month time period from January 2021 to April 2023, capturing evolving pandemic dynamics.
• Includes survey weights (Weights) for representative analysis and tracks detailed parental intentions across multiple child age groups.

Limitations

• Key metadata such as row count, dataset size, license, and author are consistently listed as 'unknown' or 'None' across all platform entries.
• The dataset is presented as multiple separate files (e.g., Wave 10) with overlapping but non-identical column sets, complicating a unified view.
• Data collection ended in April 2023, so findings may not reflect post-2023 vaccine attitudes or new variants.

Provenance

Source

datahub.hhs.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Collection Method

Online omnibus survey conducted monthly with a cross-sectional sample.

Time Range

January 2021 to April 2023

Freshness

Last updated across platform entries: 2025-07-03.

Geography

United States