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Table 1 Telephone (landline) and mobile status of household, and household has landline and/or mobile telephone listed in the Australian Electronic White Pages by year

From: Sampling and coverage issues of telephone surveys used for collecting health information in Australia: results from a face-to-face survey from 1999 to 2008

  

Telephone (landline) and mobile status of household

Household has landline and/or at least one mobile telephone listed in directory

  

No landline telephone or mobile

Mobile only household

Landline telephone only

Landline telephone and mobile

Not stated

 

No

Yes

Year

n

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

%

n

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

1999

3012

1.3 (1.0 - 1.8)

1.4 (1.0 - 1.8)

44.6 (42.9 - 46.4)

52.7 (50.9 - 54.5)

    

2004

2982

1.2 (0.8 - 1.6)

3.4 (2.8 - 4.1)

95.4 (94.6 - 96.1) *

0.1

   

2006

2969

0.3 (0.1 - 0.5)

5.2 (4.4 - 6.0)

9.7 (8.7 - 10.8)

84.7 (83.4 - 86.0)

0.1

2961

26.2 (24.6 - 27.8)

73.8 (72.2 - 75.4)

2007

2507

1.1 (0.7 - 1.6)

7.1 (6.1 - 8.1)

11.1 (9.9 - 12.3)

80.6 (79.0 - 82.1)

0.2

2480

28.5 (26.8 - 30.3)

71.5 (69.7 - 73.2)

2008

2824

0.3 (0.2 - 0.6)

8.7 (7.7 - 9.8)

6.9 (6.1 - 7.9)

83.8 (82.4 - 85.1)

0.3

2814

31.3 (29.5 - 32.9)

68.7 (66.7 - 70.1)

  1. * In 2004 HOS, households with a landline were not asked if there were any person in the household that had a mobile phone