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

2003 Data 2005 Data 2007 Not Asked All Years  


[CA-18]   {The next time you have a strong need to get information about cancer, where will you go first?/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
6,020,354 2.7% 173 3.0%
2
Interpersonal source
11,641,220 5.3% 262 4.6%
3
Health care provider
117,651,400 54.3% 3,194 57.1%
4
Information specialist
12,272,042 5.6% 366 6.5%
5
Internet
64,949,232 29.9% 1,510 27.0%
6
Other
1,250,735 0.5% 21 0.3%
7
Not ascertained
195,746 0.0% 5 0.0%
98
Refused
44,107 0.0% 1 0.0%
99
Don't know
2,521,935 1.1% 54 0.9%
 
Total
 - 100% 5,586 100%
Survey Notes:
 HINTS 2005 Survey Instrument (English): PDF 
Who was asked:
 All people in the survey, People who specified some other place they would go to first for information about cancer
Data collection method:
 Phone
Question source:
 Revised from: HINTS 2003, question HC-15
Dataset:
 2005

 

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