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Table 4.1
General Social Survey refusal and response rates

Cycle	Survey year	Household refusal	Respondent refusal	Response rate
1	1985	6.5	1.3	83.4
2	1986	6.2	2.8	78.9
3	1988	6.0	1.2	82.4
4	1989	7.2	1.7	80.7
5	1990	10.3	2.4	75.8
6	1991	5.6	1.5	80.2
7	1992	7.3	4.0	76.8
8	1993	5.6	3.6	81.6
9	1994	5.9	4.5	81.2
10	1995	6.0	4.3	81.4
11	1996	5.0	2.4	85.3
12	1998	8.7	3.7	77.6
13	1999	6.6	2.8	81.3
14	2000	8.4	8.6	80.8
15	2001	6.9	3.1	80.9
16¹	2002	..	..	86.3
17	2003	7.4	2.7	78.0
18	2004	9.4	2.7	74.5
19	2005	14.6	4.0	58.6
20	2006	12.7	3.8	67.4
21²	2007	..	..	57.7
22	2008	15.2	5.3	57.3
Note: 1. Response rate takes Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 1.1 into account, as Cycle 16 was a follow-up of CCHS respondents aged 45 and above. 2. Response rate is based on two components for Cycle 21: random digit dialling (RDD) and targeted respondents (TR) from Cycle 20 aged 45 and above. Source(s): Statistics Canada, General Social Survey, 1985 to 2008.