One-half of the
proxy respondents who were related to decedents dying of external causes
reported having heard about organ donation from the media. A third of the
respondents reported they had heard about organ donation from a State
Department of Motor Vehicles.
Number and percent of
proxy respondents who were related to decedents under age 35 years and who
died from external (homicide, suicide, accidental injury) causes by source
of knowledge concerning organ donation: United States, 1993
Source
of knowledge
Number
Percent1
Standard
error of
percent
95
percent
confidence
interval
(+/- percent)
Decedent
1,000
1.9
0.2504
0.5
Other
family member
4,000
8.0
0.5117
1.0
Friends
5,000
9.6
0.5746
1.1
School
2,000
3.6
0.3628
0.7
Work
3,000
6.8
0.4754
0.9
Media
23,000
50.0
0.9815
1.9
Church
or clergy
1,000
1.9
0.2666
0.5
Physician
3,000
5.4
0.4351
0.9
Other
health professional
3,000
6.7
0.5133
1.0
Clubs
Z2
0.6
0.1390
0.3
Department
of Motor Vehicles
16,000
33.0
0.9136
1.8
Other
4,000
7.9
0.5302
1.0
Never
heard about
3,000
7.0
0.4817
0.9
1Percents
base on 47,000 proxy respondents who were related to decedents who died of
external causes and were under 35 years of age. 2Z represents less than 500 respondents.
NOTES: Excludes deaths to persons under 15 years of age and those deaths
occurring in South Dakota. Standard errors are estimated using the
statistical software package SUDAAN.
SOURCE: NCHS, National Mortality Followback Survey -- provisional data,
1993.