.The10thAnnual Health Care in Canada Survey is a survey of the Canadian public’s and health care providers’opinions on a variety of health care issues, including quality of health care, access to

.

The

10

th

Annual Health Care in Canada Survey is a survey of the Canadian public’s and health care providers’

opinions on a variety of health care issues, including quality of health care, access to health care, health and

the environment, and so forth. A descr

iption of the survey follows:

The 10

th

edition of the Health Care in Canada Survey was conducted by POLLARA Research between October

3

rd

and November 8

th

, 2007. Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews with nationally

representative samples

of 1,223 members of the Canadian public, 202 doctors, 201 nurses, 202 pharmacists

and 201 health managers. Public results are considered to be accurate within +/

-

2.8%, while the margin of

error for results for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and managers is

+/

-

6.9%.

[6 marks]

a) Why is the accuracy greater for the public than for health care providers and managers?

[2 marks]

b) Why do you think they sampled the public as well as health care providers and managers?

[2 marks]

c)

What sampling design was employed? What mu

st you assume about the samples that were drawn from the

public, doctors, nurses, p

harmacists and health managers