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Imagine that you had a strong need to get information about cancer. Where would you go first?

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[HC-15]   Imagine that you had a strong need to get information about cancer. Where would you go first?
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Estimated U.S. Adult Population information
Survey Respondents information
  Response Number Percentage Sample
Responses		 Sample
Percentage
1
Printed materials
6,028,902 2.9% 200 3.1%
2
Interpersonal source
9,460,402 4.5% 280 4.4%
3
Health care provider
101,631,040 48.9% 3,124 49.5%
4
Information specialist
14,780,253 7.1% 447 7.0%
5
Internet
69,678,496 33.5% 2,084 33.0%
6
Other
2,039,062 0.9% 64 1.0%
98
Refused
77,133 0.0% 2 0.0%
99
Don't know
3,890,145 1.8% 109 1.7%
 
Total
 - 100% 6,310 100%
Survey Notes:
 HINTS 2003 Survey Instrument (English): PDF 
Who was asked:
 People who 'other' regarding where they would look first for cancer information, All people in the survey
Data collection method:
 Phone
Question source:
 New to HINTS 2003
Dataset:
 2003

 

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