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The most recent time you looked for cancer information, where did you go first?

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[HC-13]   The most recent time you looked for information on cancer, where did you look first?
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Estimated U.S. Adult Population information
Survey Respondents information
  Response Number Percentage Sample
Responses		 Sample
Percentage
1
Printed materials
25,952,904 27.6% 854 28.4%
2
Interpersonal source
2,735,893 2.9% 90 2.9%
3
Health care provider
10,130,120 10.8% 342 11.3%
4
Information specialist
6,691,781 7.1% 208 6.9%
5
Internet
45,083,956 48.0% 1,399 46.5%
6
Other
2,265,064 2.4% 77 2.5%
98
Refused
19,589 0.0% 1 0.0%
99
Don't know
858,408 0.9% 33 1.0%
 
Total
 - 100% 3,004 100%
Survey Notes:
 HINTS 2003 Survey Instrument (English): PDF 
Who was asked:
 People who have looked for information about cancer for themselves, People who chose 'other' regarding where they looked for cancer information
Data collection method:
 Phone
Question source:
 New to HINTS 2003
Dataset:
 2003

 

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