Public awareness of risk factors for cancer among the Japanese general population: A population-based survey

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Survey response rate

	Number of samples	Number of responses	%
Total	2000	1355	67.8
Gender
Men	977	609	62.3
Women	1023	746	72.9
Age
20–29	284	175	61.6
30–39	351	247	70.4
40–49	369	257	69.6
50–59	411	282	68.6
60–69	349	228	65.3
70≤	236	166	70.3
Region
Hokkaido and Tohoku	245	169	69.0
Kanto (Kanto and Keihin)	646	425	65.8
Chubu (Koshinetsu, Hokuriku and Tokai)	366	261	71.3
Kinki (Kinki and Hanshin)	325	222	68.3
Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu	418	278	66.5
City scale
14 metropolises*	458	325	71.0
Other cities	1122	736	65.6
Towns and villages	420	294	70.0

* Sapporo, Sendai, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Hiroshima, Kitakyushu and Fukuoka.

ISSN: 1471-2458