Table 3.
Response rates for survey and comments by region, site and across Canada
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| # Surveys mailed out2 | # Surveys returned | Province | Response rate per region # (%) | ||
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| Province | Response rate per region # (%) | ||||
| Western | British Columbia (BC): 464 | BC (n = 123) | n = 247 | BC (n = 43) | n = 88 |
| Alberta (AB): 671 | AB (n = 124) | (21.76%) | AB (n = 45) | (35.63%) | |
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| Central | Saskatchewan (SK): 173 | SK (n = 48) | n = 155 | SK (n = 19) | n = 60 |
| Manitoba (MN): 463 | MN (n = 107) | (24.37%) | MN (n = 41) | (38.71%) | |
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| Ontario | Southwestern Ontario (SWON): 425 | SWON (n = 128) | n = 253 | SWON (n = 76) | n = 124 |
| Ottawa Ontario Area (OTON): 203 | OTON (n = 63) | (30.12%) | OTON (n = 27) | (49.01%) | |
| Kingston Ontario Area (KGON): 212 | KGON (n = 62) | KGON (n = 21) | |||
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| Atlantic | Nova Scotia (NS): 368 | NS (n = 96) | n = 215 | NF (n = 26) | n = 69 |
| New Brunswick (NB): 124 | NB (n = 44) | (24.71%) | NS (n = 25) | (32.09%) | |
| Prince Edward Island (PE): 20 | PE (n = 9) | NB (n = 15) | |||
| Newfoundland & Labrador (NF): 358 | NF (n = 66) | PE (n = 3) | |||
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| Northern | Nunavik Quebec (NQC): 32 | NQC (n = 21) | n = 39 | NQC (n = 5) | n = 17 |
| NW/Yukon/Nunavut (NWYN): 108 | NWYN (n = 18) | (27.86%) | NWTN (n = 12) | (43.59%) | |
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| TOTALS | Total mail-outs for survey 3,621 | Overall survey response rate n = 909 (25.10%) | Overall response rate for comments n = 358 (39.38%) | ||
1.
Steele et al. (2012). Canadian national needs assessment, plus surveys from the Kingston Ontario Area (n = 62) were added to the n size, increasing the n size.
2.
Physicians who were no longer at the given address (e.g., retired, moved, deceased), duplicate name, and who did not work with children/adolescents were excluded from the study (sample size) (Steele et al., 2012).