TABLE 3. Response Rates^a.

	Unfinished	Finished	Total	Response Rate
Initial sampling group
BCHC	9 242	7 174	16 416	44%
Other local/regional health department	2 661	4 521	7 182	63%
State health agencyb	39 014	35 909	74 923	48%
Total	50 917	47 604	98 521	48%
Final nationally representative frame
Local	18 078	26 533	44 611	59%
SHA-CO	31 199	17 136	48 335	35%
Total	49 277	43 669	92 946	47%

Abbreviation: BCHC, Big City Health Coalition; SHA-CO, State Health Agency Central Office.

^aE-mails that were returned undeliverable were not counted toward response rate.

^bIncludes state health agency staff who work in local health department. Finished counts include staff who completed the survey; required questions included what setting they worked in, and for SHA-CO respondents, their employment status (eg, permanent, temporary). Initial sampling groups were processed, based on respondents' setting, into the nationally representative frames.