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Table 1 Descriptive overview of F2F respondents according to the mode of SAQ completion (n = 234)

From: Mixing mixed-mode designs in a national health interview survey: a pilot study to assess the impact on the self-administered questionnaire non-response

 

Web (n = 84)

P&P (n = 88)

Refusal (n = 62)

Respondent characteristics

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

 Age

46.0

15.6

56.5

20.9

48.9

18.2

 

N

%

N

%

N

%

 Sex

  men (n = 103)

36

34.9

38

36.9

29

28.2

  women (n = 131)

48

36.6

50

38.2

33

25.2

 Education level a

      

  lower (n = 154)

46

29.9

63

40.9

45

29.2

  higher (n = 80)

38

47.5

25

31.3

17

21.3

 Country of birth

  Belgium (n = 174)

70

40.2

68

39.1

36

20.7

  other countries (n = 60)

14

23.3

20

33.3

26

43.3

 Employment status b

      

  employed (n = 101)

50

49.5

25

24.8

26

25.7

  unemployed (n = 110)

25

22.7

54

49.1

31

28.2

  student (n = 23)

9

39.1

9

39.1

5

21.7

 Household size

  1 (n = 84)

26

31.0

38

45.2

20

23.8

  1+ (n = 150)

58

38.7

50

33.3

42

28.0

Interviewer

 

N

%

N

%

N

%

 Interviewer 1 (n = 29)

8

27.6

16

55.2

5

17.2

 Interviewer 2 (n = 49)

19

38.8

20

40.8

10

20.4

 Interviewer 3 (n = 47)

19

40.4

13

27.7

15

31.9

 Interviewer 4 (n = 37)

21

56.8

14

37.8

2

5.4

 Interviewer 5 (n = 30)

16

53.3

7

23.3

7

23.3

 Interviewer 6 (n = 42)

1

2.4

18

42.9

23

54.8

  1. F2F = face-to-face, SAQ = self-administered, P&P = paper-and-pencil.
  2. a For students the education level equals the highest education level in the household. If this was not possible it was based on their current field of study
  3. b “Employed” refers to respondents who had a paid job for at least one hour a week at the moment of the interview, “Unemployed” refers to respondents without a paid job at the moment of the interview, “Student” refers to respondents who were (fulltime or part-time) enrolled in the regular education system at the moment of the interview. Students who had a (part-time) paid job were classified as students