This collection of bits and pieces -- interviews, endnotes, replies to questionnaires -- includes a journal Calvino, who died in 1985, kept during his travels in the United States in 1959-60, and the title piece, a homage to his adopted city.
Since last year, employers in sex discrimination cases have also been obliged to reply to questionnaires, submitted by the plaintiff, on their pay and promotion practices.Changes in the City are also encouraging such cases.
There may be a disproportionate tendency of those who are satisfied with services to reply to questionnaires.
The inclusion criteria were: a) to be over 18 years of age; b) to have been on HD therapy for more than three months; c) to be able to reply to questionnaires and d) to have spontaneously participated in the study.
Seventy-five patients (66% of the total population and 69% of those who had received a questionnaire) replied to the questionnaire.
For the present paper, the analysis of the 1981 and 1986 cohort data considers data on all applicants who replied to our questionnaires, whereas the 1991 cohort, which was very much larger, considers only those questionnaire respondents who entered medical school (although we will generally refer to this group as 'applicants' since that reflects the time at which the questionnaire was completed).
Only 9.2% (277/3000) replied to the questionnaires for non-responders.
It is conceivable that a higher percentage of women who are not in medicine than of men who are not in medicine replied to our questionnaires.
The participating adolescents, of whom some were siblings, had a total of 7036 invited mothers (mean age 42.2 years, SD = 5.3), of which 71.9% replied to both questionnaires.
138 out of 180 GPs completed or replied to the questionnaire, overall response rate of 77% and 124 (69%) completed the questionnaire (Table 1).
