In a society where members are stratified by wealth and influence, those who live in poverty are perceived as deservingly powerless and ultimately abandoned to accept their temporary crises as permanent.
Household members were stratified by groups of diagnoses, asset-ownership SES, gender and age, and proportions were compared using a Chi-square test.
These had been selected randomly from the members' list stratified by type of disease [ 11].
The MHS questionnaires were mailed out in 1993, 1996, and 1999 to random samples of KPNC members, aged ≥18, stratified by age and KPNC facility.
These rates are for all plan members and are not stratified by race/ethnicity.
The ACG Predictive Model identified and stratified the members into appropriate levels of population health-management intervention programs.
Similarly, although there is no evidence that the respondents to this survey were different to non-respondents, it is possible that the population from which the sample was drawn - members of Coeliac UK, stratified by area and duration of membership - are in some way unrepresentative of the entire population of those with diagnosed coeliac disease.
In order to assess factors associated with herbal use, all hypothesized variables (age, gender, race and ethnicity, education, immigrant family history, herbal use by other family members, and clinic clientele stratified by SES) were included in both the univariate and the multivariate logistic regression analyses.
A total of nine FGDs were held with community members from the various blocks, stratified according to age and gender (Table 1).
