All.Can Patient Survey

Reporting of quantitative findings Quantitative findings from the survey are based on responses to the closed-ended questions in the survey. Percentages are calculated after excluding respondents who did not answer each particular question. All percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number, therefore the sum of percentages for all answers to a given question may not total 100%. As the patient survey welcomed responses from all cancer patients (no quotas were set) in order to be as inclusive as possible, the relative volume of people responding to the survey varied between countries and cancer types. To correct for this, quantitative findings have been weighted by two factors: • Representative cancer prevalence rates for each cancer type listed within each participating country • General population statistics for each country as a proportion of the international total. Where figures and tables in the findings section of this report state a base size, this is always the unweighted base size; however, all other data in these figures and tables have been weighted. Reporting of qualitative findings Qualitative findings presented in the report are based on responses to open-ended questions. A thematic analysis was conducted of all qualitative responses to the survey, as well as the in-depth patient interviews. Final themes were agreed by consensus of the All.Can international research and evidence working group and Quality Health. The most relevant and illustrative quotes supporting these themes were then selected to substantiate each section in the report. Qualitative responses were not quantitatively analysed due to the significant cost that translations and coding would have entailed on such a large sample. In addition, as not all respondents answered the open-ended questions, it would not be possible to give an accurate estimation of what proportion of all respondents might agree with each comment. Therefore, we have expressed these findings throughout the report as ‘respondents’ in the plural – without quantifying how many this concerned in each instance. To see the statistics used for these calculations Please download a copy of the full methodology document at www.all-can.org/what-we-do/ research/patient-survey/about- the-survey/ 14