Postal representatives fielded questions.
Several postal union representatives who testified also questioned the legal authority for the Postal Service to end six-day letter delivery, calling it an act of desperation.
The data were nationally representative postal surveys conducted in Estonia (n = 6271), Latvia (n = 6106), Lithuania (n = 7966) and Finland (n = 15764) during 1994 2002.
Three versions of the CQ-index questionnaires and protocols for study sampling and data collection were developed, designed for interviews with residents of nursing or residential care homes and postal surveys among representatives of psychogeriatric residents and homecare clients.
The postal surveys among representatives of psychogeriatric clients and among homecare clients resulted in lower response rates (77% and 52% respectively), but also lower percentages of clients were excluded beforehand.
Both the interview questionnaire for residents and the postal questionnaire for representatives contained six items that didn't fit into a scale and that also met at least one of the other criteria for item deletion or adaptation (and three of these items concerned the same quality aspects).
The patients included in the postal sample are less representative in terms of ethnicity.
A cross-sectional randomly selected postal survey of a representative sample of the adult population aged 18 70 years in Stockholm County, Sweden, was conducted in 2003.
The Victorian Survey of Recent Mothers, a state-wide postal survey of a representative cohort of 1336 women, found that at six months postpartum, 94% of the sample reported one or more health problems [ 20].
SHAIPS was a postal survey of a representative sample of the population of Sheffield looking at health status and use of health services and included the HADS depression scale.
