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Overall, how confident are you that you could get advice or information about cancer if you needed it?

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[CA-17]   Overall, how confident are you that you could get advice or information about cancer if you needed it? Would you say completely confident, very confident, somewhat confident, a little confident, or not confident at all?.
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Estimated U.S. Adult Population information
Survey Respondents information
  Response Number Percentage Sample
Responses		 Sample
Percentage
1
Completely/very confident
146,257,168 67.5% 3,791 67.8%
2
Somewhat confident
49,720,340 22.9% 1,327 23.7%
3
Slightly confident
14,391,971 6.6% 321 5.7%
4
Not confident at all
4,498,981 2.0% 101 1.8%
98
Refused
166,067 0.0% 2 0.0%
99
Don't know
1,512,240 0.6% 44 0.7%
 
Total
 - 100% 5,586 100%
Survey Notes:
 HINTS 2005 Survey Instrument (English): PDF 
Who was asked:
 All people in the survey
Data collection method:
 Phone
Question source:
 Revised from: HINTS 2003, question HC-15A
Dataset:
 2005

 

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