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Bill Ward
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2000 Telephone Coverage
Estimated Percentages of Households With and Without Telephones by State,
2001
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StateTelephone HouseholdsPercent Telephone HouseholdNon-Telephone
HouseholdPercent Non-Telephone HouseholdTotal
TOTAL
UNITED STATES100,644,48094.495,871,2945.51106,510,746
Alabama1,613,90991.83143,5288.171,757,437
Alaska215,63996.098,7643.91224,403
Arizona1,743,65094.33104,7605.671,848,410
Arkansas961,00791.6387,7718.371,048,778
California11,820,00096.18475,0223.8712,290,000
Colorado1,587,68295.6871,6324.321,659,314
Connecticut1,245,04095.5258,4384.481,303,478
Delaware286,69797.646,9332.36293,630
District of Columbia228,38295.6910,2844.31238,666
Florida5,761,54091.95504,1268.056,265,666
Georgia2,878,80892.26241,4097.743,120,217
Hawaii386,89794.1124,2075.89411,103
Idaho463,12693.4632,4276.54495,553
Illinois4,151,29791.79371,4058.214,522,702
Indiana2,212,99393.81146,1316.192,359,124
Iowa1,098,31096.7736,6513.231,134,961
Kansas1,002,66592.6279,9117.381,082,576
Kentucky1,494,00493.50103,8576.501,597,862
Louisiana1,580,54593.21115,1116.791,695,655
Maine499,62698.0210,0791.98509,705
Maryland1,982,01595.9982,8584.012,064,873
Massachusetts2,333,29395.89100,1304.112,433,423
Michigan3,603,38495.08186,5774.923,789,960
Minnesota1,810,72496.9457,1263.061,867,850
Mississippi967,30987.83133,99212.171,101,300
Missouri2,094,73697.1461,6802.862,156,416
Montana345,52595.1017,7934.90363,318
Nebraska636,86997.1618,5932.84655,461
Nevada682,83795.6231,2914.38714,128
New Hampshire482,82598.109,3371.90492,162
New Jersey2,923,63295.33143,1544.673,066,786
New Mexico615,37591.7855,1078.22670,482
New York6,723,14595.06349,0474.947,072,192
North Carolina2,790,26793.16204,7336.842,994,999
North Dakota240,98094.9112,9195.09253,898
Ohio4,211,76195.45200,7474.554,412,508
Oklahoma1,256,56493.0793,6136.931,350,177
Oregon1,290,40494.7072,2385.301,362,642
Pennsylvania4,549,03997.10135,8252.904,684,864
Rhode Island382,49295.7317,0714.27399,563
South Carolina1,477,30392.91112,7727.091,590,074
South Dakota280,42195.6612,7244.34293,145
Tennessee2,091,18991.96182,7318.042,273,919
Texas7,092,90193.15521,2096.857,614,110
Utah691,31396.2427,0303.76718,343
Vermont247,25797.117,3632.89254,620
Virginia2,622,03194.53151,7095.472,773,740
Washington2,152,95995.8194,1254.192,247,084
West Virginia701,12892.8653,9057.14755,033
Wisconsin1,952,79896.0879,7603.922,032,558
Wyoming180,18793.9111,6906.09191,878
Source: March 2001 Current Population Survey, U.S. Census Bureau. Data
provided by Marketing SYstems Group (GENESYS).
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:19:18 -0500 Ron Wray <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> The problem with telephone survey is that you will not get a
> "representative" sample. There are many individuals lacking
> telephones,
> often those with considerable health challenges. Telephone surveys
> can
> heighten social exclusion by leaving behind the marginalized. They
> might
> work for marketing surveys since one is simply trying to scope the
> "buying"
> population, but not for a health priority exercise.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Anne Cogdon
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:05 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: assessing health priorities of a population
>
>
> Hello
> We are currently exploring methods to assess the health priority
> needs
> of communities across our district (Capital Health, Nova Scotia
> which
> includes Halifax Municipality and the county of West Hants). Up to
> this
> point our method of community consultation has been mainly face to
> face
> - either inviting people to meetings, being placed on the agenda of
> meetings by groups and organizations, holding focus groups, etc.
> In
> addition, we have developed a short survey that is distributed to
> selected groups and organizations with a return stamped envelope
> (return
> rate is usually low).
>
> We are currently investigating the appropriateness of conducting a
> telephone survey with a representative sample of our population to
> gather info on health prioroties (for health service planning but
> also
> to gain insight re the broader determinants of health).
>
> Has anyone used this method? Are there survey tools available that
> we
> should review? Is there literature that we should review?
>
> Any advice/assistance you can give would be very much appreciated.
>
> Anne Cogdon
>
>
>
> Anne Cogdon
> Director of Community Health
> Dartmouth and Southeastern
> Marshall Treatment Centre
> 294 Pleasant Street
> Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
> 2Y 3S3
> (902) 465-8578
>
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