{"id":279543,"date":"2025-11-18T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=279543"},"modified":"2025-11-19T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T20:42:37","slug":"how-do-americans-view-childhood-vaccines-vaccine-research-and-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/science\/2025\/11\/18\/how-do-americans-view-childhood-vaccines-vaccine-research-and-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Americans View Childhood Vaccines, Vaccine Research and Policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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A 4-year-old boy picks out a bandage before getting vaccinated in San Jose, California, in 2022. (Jane Tyska\/Digital First Media\/The Mercury News via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How we did this<\/summary>\n

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans\u2019 views on childhood vaccines, vaccine research and vaccine policy. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,111 adults from Oct. 20 to 26, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education, presidential vote (among voters) and other factors. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the questions used for this report<\/a>, the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

Key takeaways<\/h4>\n\n\n\n