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Activity Number:
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571
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #304520 |
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Title:
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Achieving the Unique Objectives of the Canadian Health Measures Survey
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Author(s):
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Sarah-Maude Dion*+ and Suzelle Giroux
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Companies:
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Statistics Canada and Statistics Canada
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Address:
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100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada
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Keywords:
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Multi-stage design ; Stratification ; CHMS ; Health ; Complex design
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Abstract:
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The Canadian Health Measures Survey at Statistics Canada consists of an in-home health questionnaire and a visit to a clinic where direct measures of health indicators are taken from a nationally representative sample of Canadians. The sample was drawn from a multi-stage complex design that used a stratification based on auxiliary variables obtained from the most recent Census. Many challenges needed to be addressed such as deterioration of the frame over time as well as age groups of significantly different sizes and the specific objective of obtaining equal numbers of respondents in each age group. This paper will provide an overview of the CHMS with emphasis on the efficiency of the adopted strategy to obtain sufficient sample size in the target groups. Other issues will be discussed, such as the effect of the distance a respondent has to travel to get to the clinic.
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