Table 4 |
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Costs for the five respondent groups |
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Groups 1-4 postal respondents |
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Variable |
Total respondents (n = 823) |
1 Initial respondents (n = 406) |
2 First reminder (n = 189) |
3 Second reminder (n = 106) |
4 Third reminder (n = 70) |
5 Telephone respondents (n = 52) |
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Total costs for each respondent group (€) |
- |
9 655 |
6 718 |
5 108 |
4 362 |
4 543 |
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Cumulative survey costs (€) |
- |
9 655 |
16 372 |
21 479 |
25 841 |
30 385 |
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Percentage of survey costs in each respondent group |
- |
31.8 |
22.1 |
16.8 |
14.4 |
15.0 |
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Costs per response for each respondent group (€) |
- |
23.8 |
35.5 |
48.2 |
62.3 |
87.4 |
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Bjertnaes et al. BMC Health Services Research 2010 10:38 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-10-38 |
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