Inclusion of mobile phone numbers into an ongoing population health survey in New South Wales, Australia: design, methods, call outcomes, costs and sample representativeness

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In Australia telephone surveys have been the method of choice for ongoing jurisdictional population health surveys. Although it was estimated in 2011 that nearly 20% of the Australian population were mobile-only phone users, the incl...

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Main Authors: Barr Margo L, van Ritten Jason J, Steel David G, Thackway Sarah V
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-11-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/177