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9.3 Blood donationsThe section related to blood donation in the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong> interview asked the following three questions:• Have you been asked to donate blood in the last year?• Who asked you to donate blood the last time? (blood transfusion service, family/friend, orother/unknown)• Have you donated blood in the last year?Among participants who reported that a family or friend asked them to donate blood in the last year,we assumed that the vast majority of these were family/ replacement donors outside of the KNBTSsystem. However, it is possible that some in this group may have been asked by family or friends todonate to a blood transfusion service as a voluntary non‐remunerated blood donor. In addition,though the KNBTS is moving towards 100% voluntary, non‐remunerated donations, it is possible thatsome of the participants that reported donating at the request of a blood transfusion centre includedfamily/ replacement donors.Overall, 2.3% of participants reported donating blood in the year before the survey. This projects toroughly 460,000 blood donors nationwide. A significantly higher percent of men (4.0%) compared towomen (1.1%) surveyed in the <strong>2007</strong> <strong>KAIS</strong> reported that they donated blood in <strong>2007</strong>.<strong>KAIS</strong> <strong>2007</strong> 166

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