Table 4.
Participation at household (HH) level, Belgian health interview survey 1997 - 2008
| |
1997 |
2001 |
2004 |
2008 |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abs. | % | Abs. | % | Abs. | % | Abs. | % | |
| Non-existing address |
*** |
*** |
25 |
0.2 |
31 |
0.2 |
93 |
0.7 |
| HH doesn’t live at address |
*** |
*** |
232 |
2.1 |
983 |
7.5 |
2,328 |
16.1 |
| Non-contable HH |
3,601 |
31.2 |
1,978 |
17.6 |
1,445 |
11 |
1,462 |
10.1 |
| Refusing HH |
3,303 |
28.6 |
3,496 |
31.1 |
4,107 |
31.4 |
4,746 |
32.9 |
| Participating HH |
4,664 |
31.2 |
5,533 |
49 |
6,530 |
49.9 |
5,809 |
40.2 |
| Invited HH | 11,568 | 100 | 11,264 | 100 | 13,096 | 100 | 14,438 | 100 |
*** For the BHIS1997, it was not possible to distinguish on-participation due to a non-existing address nor to the fact that the household didn’t live at the indicated address. Such cases were included in the category ’non-contactable households’.