because of this the women could not be contacted for the information that was not provided on some of the surveys. Despite all of this, 96% of the information necessary to analyze the results was available. The lack of information for some of the areas have not significantly affected the results of the study (Wilcox and Stefanick, 1999).Information about the women who filled out the survey was their age, marital status, education level and ethnic origins. The sample size used in this study was small and therefore race was not equally represented. The racial makeup of the sample group was made up of mostly Whites and there was a small percentage of Non-Whites in the study so the conductors of the study decided to divide the participants into two groups racially, Whites and Non-Whites, for all the “primary analyses” of the survey. Other variables reported in the study that were measured were the risk factors women described in the survey that were relevant to CHD, breast cancer, colon cancer and other various health problems. For example when the conductors of the survey were assessing CHD risk factors, the women were asked about their health and whether or not they had any history of high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. Similar types of questions were asked on the survey regarding the other diseases listed above.The survey also had questions regarding what the women thought were the leading causes of death of women in certain age groups and gender groups. The survey was structured so that the women had to answer questions with specific answers for causes of death for each group by age and according to whether or not they were males or females. The women in the study were also questioned regarding their perceived general risk of a women getting a major disease they were asked to indicate the likelihood that a woman would get a major disease based on a rating system of numbers ranging from 1 to 5, 1 repr...
