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Appendix II:
Methodology
In most cities, all centres and homes agencies (or individual homes in
BC) were called. At least three calls were made to all centres or agencies.
In some cases, more calls were made to push up response rates. Any sites
that did not offer full-time care were excluded. Total response rates are included
in Table 3 below.
In some cities, random samples of either centres and/or homes were
taken. Medians from those samples should be considered accurate to within
+/- 10%, nine times out of 10. While in set-fee provinces (Quebec, Manitoba
and PEI) private operators need not necessarily charge the set-fee (although
they then forgo operational support), the median space is in the set
fee system and as such, those cities are not surveyed, as the median is known.
The median calculated is for the median space, not the median centre
or home agency. If one centre has more spaces, then its fee will have a larger
impact on the median than a centre with fewer spaces. The aggregate
median for a city includes the spaces in both centres and licensed homes
combined. This can have an impact particularly on the median infant fee if
a city has a large number of homes providing infant care, something that is
less common among centres. The centre and home fees are separated out
in Table 1 above.
Daily fees were converted to monthly values by multiplying by 21.7.
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