FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2789
You asked
Please supply a list of the ten council boroughs with the lowest percentage uptake of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
We said
Thank you for your request.
The COVID-19 Infection Survey is a household survey that estimates the number of people testing positive for infection and for antibodies in the UK. Our statistics refer to individuals in the community, by which we mean private households. These figures exclude infections reported in hospitals, care homes or other institutional settings.
You can find the confirmed number of vaccinations by local authority on the Government dashboard. Public Health England (PHE) may be better placed to assist with your query about the council boroughs with the lowest percentage uptake of the vaccine. They can be contacted via email at wn_coronavirus@phe.gov.uk.
Additionally, in the following dataset accompanying our antibody and vaccination article, you can find the modelled percentage of the adult population vaccinated in England, by English region, in Wales, in Northern Ireland and in Scotland on tabs 1e, 1f, 2d, 3d, and 4d respectively.
While the daily official government figures provide the recorded actual numbers of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 issued, our vaccination estimates are likely to be different from the official figures. This is because they are estimates based on a sample survey of reported vaccine status and are provided for context alongside our antibodies estimates. Differences between official figures and the estimates from this survey differ in scale across each of the four UK nations because of differences in reporting dates and the inclusion of National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) data for England. This should be taken into consideration if comparing vaccine and antibody estimates across the four nations as vaccine status and antibody positivity are related.
For further information and an overview of all the data published by us, please check our ONS COVID Insights Tool.