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User Guide for the Survey of Household Spending, 2017
Appendix A
Diary response rates among interview respondents, Canada^{Appendix A Note 1} and provinces

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Appendix A
Diary response rates among interview respondents, Canada and provinces
Table summary
This table displays the results of Diary response rates among interview respondents Interview respondents, Diaries, Refusal, Unusable, Usable and Response rate, calculated using number and percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
	Interview respondents^{Appendix A Note 2}	Refusal^{Appendix A Note 4}	Unusable	Usable	Response rate^{Appendix A Note 5}
	Interview respondents^{Appendix A Note 2}	Diaries^{Appendix A Note 3}
	number				percentage
Canada	5,885	2,048	138	3,699	62.9
Atlantic provinces	1,910	672	60	1,178	61.7
Newfoundland and Labrador	519	170	18	331	63.8
Prince Edward Island	271	105	5	161	59.4
Nova Scotia	575	191	25	359	62.4
New Brunswick	545	206	12	327	60.0
Quebec	811	286	10	515	63.5
Ontario	830	301	13	516	62.2
Prairie provinces	1,644	514	40	1,090	66.3
Manitoba	535	161	12	362	67.7
Saskatchewan	554	156	16	382	69.0
Alberta	555	197	12	346	62.3
British Columbia	690	275	15	400	58.0
Note 1 Only the 10 provinces are included. Return to note 1 referrer Note 2 Interview respondents from households selected to fill out the diary. Return to note 2 referrer Note 3 The definition of usable and unusable diaries is given in the "Data processing and quality control" section. Return to note 3 referrer Note 4 Includes diary "No contacts", "Refusals" and "Residual non-respondents" from interview respondents selected to fill out the diary. Return to note 4 referrer Note 5 (Usable diaries/Interview respondents selected for the diary) x 100. Return to note 5 referrer

Date modified:: 2018-12-12