Methodology
Subjects
Employment Barriers Survey #1 was sent to 1,000 randomly selected Alaskans with disabilities who received Medicaid and were between the ages of 18 - 60 years. To better represent the geographic dispersion of the state’s population a stratified random sample methodology was used. The sample size for each region was calculated as shown in the Table below.
Sample Size for the regions of the State of Alaska and their respective communities.
Sample
|
Communities within Alaska |
Region |
|
12 |
North Slope, Northwest Arctic |
North |
|
70 |
Lake & Peninsula Borough, Aleutians East Borough, Aleutians West Borough, Bethel Census Area, Dillingham Census Area, Kodiak Island Borough, Nome Census Area, Bristol Bay Borough, Wade Hampton Census Area |
West |
|
62 |
Haines Borough, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, Sitka Borough, Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Yakutat Borough. |
Southeast |
|
229 |
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Valdez-Cordova Census Area |
Southcentral |
|
24 |
Denali Borough, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. |
Interior |
|
446 |
Municipality of Anchorage |
Anchorage |
|
109 |
Municipality of Fairbanks |
Fairbanks |
|
48 |
Municipality of Juneau |
Juneau |
|
1,000 |
Total |
All Regions |
A total of eight surveys were returned uncompleted and 324 surveys were undeliverable due to address problems, which reduced the total number of surveys disseminated to 676. Two hundred twenty seven surveys were returned completed, yielding an overall response rate of 33%. The response rates for each of the geographical regions are displayed in the Table below.
Response rate for each region.
Region |
Target
|
Completed
|
Response
|
|
North |
6 |
4 |
67% |
|
West |
42 |
19 |
45% |
|
Southeast |
40 |
15 |
38% |
|
South-central |
131 |
53 |
40% |
|
Interior |
18 |
6 |
33% |
|
Urban Anchorage |
330 |
91 |
28% |
|
Urban Fairbanks |
74 |
23 |
31% |
|
Urban Juneau |
35 |
15 |
43% |
|
Unknown |
0 |
1 |
0% |
|
Totals |
676 |
227 |
33% |
