Table 5.
Response Rates
| Distribution of surveys | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohort | Number of surveys distributed | Number of surveys completed | Response rate* (Percent) | Number of surveys linked to SEER | Number of surveys not linked to SEER but taken in a SEER region | Number of surveys not linked to SEER and not taken in a SEER region |
| 1998 | 119,267 | 89,713 | 75.2 | 7283 | 18,475 | 63,955 |
| 1999 | 180,564 | 138,216 | 76.5 | 10,034 | 27,129 | 101,053 |
| 2000 | 202,775 | 165,871 | 81.8 | 10,503 | 29,240 | 126,128 |
| 2001 | 379,049 | 282,711 | 74.6 | 18,267 | 52,144 | 212,300 |
| 2002 | 357,320 | 270,773 | 75.8 | 16,774 | 50,716 | 203,283 |
| 2003 | 350,175 | 267,532 | 76.4 | 14,775 | 47,549 | 205,208 |
| 2004 | 344,022 | 256,507 | 74.6 | 14,531 | 48,472 | 193,504 |
| 2005 | 340,522 | 249,594 | 73.3 | 13,239 | 47,464 | 188,891 |
| 2006 | 153,966 | 97,845 | 63.5 | 5049 | 19,546 | 73,250 |
| 2007 | 685,934 | 334,513 | 48.8 | 12,734 | 57,268 | 264,511 |
| 2008 | 672,146 | 407,287 | 60.6 | 15,003 | 75,100 | 317,184 |
| 2009 | 672,919 | 415,175 | 61.7 | 14,947 | 80,362 | 319,866 |
| 2010 | 682,836 | 407,924 | 59.7 | 13,240 | 76,766 | 317,918 |
| Total | 5,141,495 | 3,383,661 | 65.8 | 166,379 | 630,231 | 2,587,051 |
*Note: Average annual CAHPS response rate is 71 %. The number of surveys do not match the number of respondents in Table 6, since respondents could answer more than one survey