Survey Results

The geographic location and community names of the randomly selected sample clusters are given in Fig. 1 and Table 1.

Fig. 1: Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Location of sample clusters (A-G) of 10 houses each in Chester and Lunenburg Municipalities. There were seven similar clusters in each of the towns.

TABLE 1 : COMMUNITIES SAMPLED IN THE SURVEY.

[See Fig. 1 for locations in Lunenburg County]

A total of 310 houses with data on 569 persons were interviewed (Table 2). A further 118 houses were approached and 40 of the occupants stated that neither they nor anyone in the home were interested in upgrading or taking courses; the remainder did not want to answer a survey owing to illness, busy or not interested in answering (65 of 118) or the interviewer (DGB) could not access the premises (13 of 118) owing to dogs, seasonal house closed, or occupant never answered. The sampling intensity was 2.4% for the County (Table 3) with a household refusal rate of 18.2% (=100% * 78/428)

TABLE 2: Summary of sample size

TABLE 3: Intensity of sampling by dwellings