Conducting a Telephonic Survey for Demographic Differences in Community Health Service Usage

STATISTICS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
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PART A
The intention of conducting a telephonic survey is to find statistically significant
demographic differences between the two groups who tend to avail the community health
service and those who choose not to avail the same. The population information potentially
may be derived on account of below mentioned sources.
 Government Census & Records – Relevant information can be obtained from the
records maintained with the relevant local government under whose jurisdiction the
community falls. Also, for the beneficiaries the implementing agency can provide
valuable data (Medhi, 2015).
The main advantage would be that the underlying data would be accurate, reliable and
available without any hassle. However, the downside would be the standard nature
owing to which suitable changes may be required. Additionally, the data may not
highlight the data differently for those availing the service and others who do not use
the community health service (Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, 2016).
 Relevant Non-Government Organisations – Owing to involvement of NGO in the
implementation of various community level programs, thus customised relevant data
may be obtained from a relevant NGO active amongst the target population (Hillier,
2016)
The obvious advantage is that custom data relevant to the study can be easily obtained
but this custom data may at times lack reliability and thus adversely impact reliability
which is a key disadvantage (Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, 2016).
 Previous Research – It might be possible that the relevant data can be derived from
past research on the target population (Medhi, 2015).
The benefit is that the requisite data can be obtained without expenditure of time and
resources but the downside is that the data may be old and relevant in a context
different from the researcher (Hillier, 2016).