Day 257 - 06 Jun 96 - Page 12

     
     1   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The number of people who responded.
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     3   MR. RAMPTON:  Actual number of people within sample, is that the
     4        same?
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     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So that is 5,000?
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     8   MR. RAMPTON:  No, my Lord, I do not believe that is right.
     9        Mr. Fairgrieve, there is a column with 'actual number of
    10        people within sample'?
    11        A.  Yes.
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    13   Q.   Then at the bottom there is a figure for total with a
    14        double underline, 8,763; you see that?
    15        A.  Yes.
    16
    17   Q.   What does that figure of 8,763 represent?
    18        A.  It represents the number of people surveyed across a
    19        yearly period to derive this.
    20
    MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Keep your voice up?
    22        A.  It is the number of people surveyed across a yearly
    23        period to derive this data.
    24
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  That is the actual number of people that answer
    26        the questionnaires, or whatever?
    27        A.  That is correct.
    28
    29   Q.   And you have put underneath the figures a number of
    30        percentages, which I will come to in a moment.  May I ask
    31        you one question.  The data you used to compile this table
    32        was the same as or different from the ones that you used to
    33        produces the data you used to produce your original
    34        calculation?
    35        A.  It is the same source of data, but a different
    36        analysis.
    37
    38   Q.   Right.  Why did you use, in order to produce a projected
    39        number, or an estimate -- which it must be since you did
    40        not survey everybody in the whole country -- a multiplier
         of 5,000?
    42        A.  To factor up the total sampled to a number equivalent
    43        to the population of the UK.
    44
    45   Q.   To the?
    46        A.  To the population of the UK.
    47
    48   Q.   The population in the UK?  I do not know, that is bit
    49        bigger than 43.8 million?
    50        A.  It is 56.6 million. 
    51 
    52   Q.   I see.  So, if I multiply 5,000 by 8,763 do I get 56 
    53        million plus; is that the point?
    54        A.  Yes, it takes you to a figure equivalent to the
    55        universe.  The sample for the research, the research was
    56        derived from a random sample of adults, 16 plus, by means
    57        of interviewing.  We spoke to 8,763 over an equivalent year
    58        period to get back to the population.  The multiplying
    59        factor is 5,000 against the sample.
    60