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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Outlook. 2021 Feb 13;69(4):609–616. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2021.01.010

Table 3.

Survey Response Rate

Scenario 1: Assuming all unknown are eligible Scenario 2: Assuming some unknown are ineligible* Scenario 3: Assuming all unknown are ineligible
Respondents 1,244 1,244 1,244
Assumed eligible non-respondents 4,445 3,650 2,742
Total assumed eligible 5,689 4,894 3,986
Response rate 21.9% 25.4% 31.2%
*

In Scenario 2, we assume that 53% of the 1,703 non-respondents with unknown disposition are ineligible for the survey. This estimate is based on eligibility rates among those in the sampling frame whose final disposition was known.