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Table 4 Final call disposition

From: The VicHealth Indicators population survey: methodology, prevalence of behavioural risk factors, and use in local policy

 

Total

Landline frame

Mobile frame

N

%

N

%

N

%

277,832

100

68,429

100

209,403

100

Interview (Category 1)

 Complete

22,819

8.2%

14,737

21.5%

8082

3.9%

Eligible, non-interview (Category 2)

 Refusal and breakoff

403

0.1%

196

0.3%

207

0.1%

 Known respondent refusal

7645

2.8%

2205

3.2%

5440

2.6%

 Respondent never available

2220

0.8%

1392

2.0%

828

0.4%

 Other, non-refusals

251

0.1%

173

0.3%

78

0.0%

 Physically or mentally unable/incompetent

2454

0.9%

1951

2.9%

503

0.2%

 Language problem

1154

0.4%

302

0.4%

852

0.4%

 Location/Activity not allowing interview

13

0.0%

0

0.0%

13

0.0%

Unknown eligibility, non-interview (Category 3)

 Always busy

343

0.1%

82

0.1%

261

0.1%

 No answer

85,560

30.8%

16,562

24.2%

68,998

32.9%

 Answering machine

15,663

5.6%

9853

14.4%

5810

2.8%

 Call blocking

1134

0.4%

146

0.2%

988

0.5%

 Housing unit, unknown if eligible respondent

43,376

15.6%

8475

12.4%

34,901

16.7%

 Other

673

0.2%

532

0.8%

141

0.1%

Not eligible (Category 4)

 Fax/data line

3763

1.4%

3334

4.9%

429

0.2%

 Non-working/disconnect

20,190

7.3%

2851

4.2%

17,339

8.3%

 Non-residence

7782

2.8%

5288

7.7%

2494

1.2%

 No eligible respondent

62,152

22.4%

127

0.2%

62,025

29.6%

 Quota filled

237

0.1%

223

0.3%

14

0.0%

  1. I Interviews, P Partial interviews, R Refusals, NC Non-contacts, O Other, E Estimate of the proportion of unknown outcomes likely to have been in-scope, UH Unknown, if household / occupied UO Unknown other