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The selection of stakeholders who got a score equal to 3 was based on the ranking they
got by rankers from the same language community. The selection of the first 12 (out of
20) gave a whole sample of 67 stakeholders.
1. This provisional list was sent to two last persons who have a sound
knowledge of the stakeholders working in the GP and political field. They
suggested a few other names and two stakeholders were further added.
2. The researchers also sent a letter to the INAMI/RIZIV, the Public Health
Federal Service and the Sickness funds to inform them about the survey
and to ask for possible additional names.
3. Each stakeholder was asked during his/her interview to suggest other
names as in classical snowball sampling 215. The interviewee could
recommend a maximum of three persons in each group of stakeholders
216: policymakers, unions, universities, media and sickness funds (this last
group has been taken apart from the policymakers because they do not
have the same status as policymakers).
4. This last procedure allowed to check the validity of the list and to select
new stakeholders who were not mentioned beforehand but were cited by
several interviewed persons.
6.4.3 Sample size, stratification and participation rate
Six from the 78 stakeholders contacted refused to participate either due to a lack of
time or for private reasons. One person did not completely fill the questionnaire and
was not taken into account. The remaining 71 stakeholders were stratified as follows:
Table 12: Stratification of the stakeholders
Groups N %
Policymakers 28 39.4
Unions 20 28.2
Universities 16 22.5
Media 7 9.9
Language N %
Dutch-speaking 39 54.9
French-speaking 32 45.1
Age groups N %
20-30 3 4.2
31-40 4 5.6
41-50 21 29.6
51-60 34 47.9
61+ 9 12.7
Gender N %
Men 56 78.9
Women 15 21.1
The initial protocol of this project planned to interview 70 stakeholders from the first 4
groups. Moreover, the protocol included interviews of 30 GPs to focus on the most
interested group on the field. This sample size had been defined according to logistical
constraints and previous stakeholder survey sampling 198 , 217 , 218 , 219 , 220 .
Those GPs have been selected according to their status (president of GP’s circles
and/or training supervisors), their gender and their language (reflecting their location -
North or South-). A balance between those elements has been reached.
Thirty-eight GPs (n=38) were contacted. Seven (n=7) refused to participate either for a
lack of time or for private reasons. The characteristics of the 31 interviewed GPs are
the following: