Abstract
Nowadays, there is not an effective COVID-19 disease treatment, then vaccination provides the best hope to restrain the dissemination of the disease. However, a portion of the population doubts the safety of vaccination and many people are unwilling to get vaccinated because of their risk perception. The aim of this study is to understand people’s behavior by measuring the stability of their preferences on getting vaccinated against COVID-19 over time. Considering this goal, this contribution suggests a new methodological framework for measuring preference stability over time, and it includes two cases of study. The first one explores the characteristics of Spanish citizens’ preferences on COVID-19 vaccination from September 2020 to September 2021 and the second one attempts to evaluate the stability of French citizens’ preferences on COVID-19 vaccination from May 2020 to October 2021.
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Notes
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Technically speaking, a complete preorder \(\mathcal {R}\) on X means a complete and transitive binary relation on \(\mathbf {X}\).
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It should be noted that the moments of time in the temporal set would not be in need of equidistantly distributed.
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\( \mathcal {C}_{\varSigma , \mathcal{P}}(\mathcal {R}^{i})=\sum _{j=1}^{n} d_{\varSigma }(\mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}_{j}}, \mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}})=\sum _{j=1}^{n} (\mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}_{j}}- \mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}}) \varSigma ^{-1}(\mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}_{j}}- \mathbf {c}_{\mathcal {R}^{i}})^{t} \).
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In this regard, if individuals express their preferences taking into account more intensively the most recent, \(\lambda >0\); if individuals express their preferences, taking into account equally all, \(\lambda =0\).
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All data are available through the website: http://www.cis.es/cis/export/sites/default/-Archivos/Marginales/3300_3319/3302/FT3302.pdf.
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It is worth mentioning that the vaccination program started in January 2020.
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All data are available through the website: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/dossiers/coronavirus-covid-19/etudes-et-enquetes-covid-19.
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It is worth mentioning that the vaccination program started in January 2020.
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De Andrés Calle is grateful to the Junta de Castilla y León and the European Regional Development Fund (Grant CLU-2019-03) for the financial support to the Research Unit of Excellence “Economic Management for Sustainability” (GECOS).
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Prieto-Herráez, S., de Andrés Calle, R. (2022). Stability of Preferences over Time: Preferences on COVID-19 Vaccine from Spanish and French People. In: Ciucci, D., et al. Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. IPMU 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1602. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08974-9_14
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