Recruiting a representative sample of urban South Australian Aboriginal adults for a survey on alcohol consumption

Table 1 The sample we aimed to recruit from each site

Site	Number	Percent
Public space	440	62.3
Indigenous health service	68	9.6
Community groups	51	7.2
Indigenous community colleges	43	6.1
Unemployment and housing services	34	4.8
Homelessness services^a	34	4.8
Mental health and AOD^b services	25	3.5
Childcare services	7	1.0
Cultural groups	4	0.6

Public spaces included shopping malls and public events such as local festivals; ^a Local Aboriginal research assistants assigned clients to the homelessness strata based on their local knowledge of participants surveyed at hostels for individuals living rough, when accessing a food van, a health service or community centre, or living rough (in local ‘parklands’); ^b alcohol and other drug services

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