Statistics for Public Health
ASSESSMENT BRIEF Subject Code and Title : STAT6000: Statistics for Public Health Assessment : Assessment 1: Assignment – Short survey: Draft a short survey Individual/Group : Individual Length: Up to 500 words Weighting : 20% Total Marks : 100 marks Instructions: You have been asked to design a short telephone survey to find out the demographic characteristics of people in the catchment of a local community health service, and distinguish between those who actually use the service and those who do not. This assessment has two parts. Part 1 How can you identify and contact these two groups? In your answer, discuss potential sources of population data that you can use to select participants, and the advantages and disadvantages of using these lists to identify people in the population. You also need to describe your sampling method, the process you will follow to recruit participants, and the limitations of recruiting parti