Why is data sometimes suppressed?
Suppression is used to prevent individuals and their responses being identifiable in the data, and to ensure results based on very small numbers of respondents are not released.
Two types of suppression are used in the GP Patient Survey:
• In cases where a result is based on fewer than 10 people (unweighted), it has been suppressed. For example, where fewer than 10 people answered a question from a particular organisation, the results are not shown.
• In addition, for organisations with an eligible population of 1,000 or less, individual response option counts below 5 (but excluding 0) and corresponding percentages have been suppressed for the relevant questions in the 'Some questions about you' section and questions relating to long-term conditions, disabilities, or illnesses. In instances where only one response option is suppressed for these questions, the next lowest response option has also been suppressed to prevent back calculation of the primary suppressed result. The
Technical Annex contains the full list of questions where this applies.
Due to technical limitations of the analysis tool and PCN dashboard, it has not been possible to apply the second suppression method to the affected organisations and questions. This applies to a very small number of organisations, and results for these questions are not presented. However, the full results for these organisations are available in the Excel and csv files on the Surveys and Reports page.
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