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Who was that? [that looked for information about cancer for you]

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[HC-11]   Who was that? [that looked for information about cancer for you]
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For this question, respondents were given the opportunity to provide more than one response. Click on the response set number (#) below to see results from these response sets:
ORNC = Other Responses
Not Coded
#1
ORNC
Estimated U.S. Adult Population information
Survey Respondents information
  Response Number Percentage Sample
Responses		 Sample
Percentage
6
Cancer organizations
246,072 0.7% 11 0.9%
10
Spouse
7,094,591 20.1% 191 17.2%
11
Other family member
18,260,404 51.9% 601 54.1%
12
Friend
6,914,603 19.6% 222 20.0%
13
Co-worker
606,199 1.7% 26 2.3%
14
Information specialist (e.g., librarian)
594,729 1.6% 20 1.8%
91
Other (specify)
1,251,459 3.5% 32 2.8%
98
Refused
28,652 0.0% 1 0.0%
99
Don't know
137,058 0.3% 5 0.4%
 
Total
 - 100% 1,109 100%
Survey Notes:
 HINTS 2003 Survey Instrument (English): PDF 
Who was asked:
 People who have had someone else look for information about cancer on their behalf, People who named someone else who looked for cancer information for them
Data collection method:
 Phone
Question source:
 New to HINTS 2003
Dataset:
 2003

 

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