The statistical information I found was about the Mdewakanton Indian Reservation in Prior Lake. It also included other reservations around Minnesota/ Wisconsin and some information about the people who make up their population. The information was collected from the Census Bureau. It doesn't really say how the information was collected but it does say that it includes 100% of the population which I find hard to believe. Maybe it was easier to contact each individual since tribes are smaller and it was 1975 so maybe they actually sent people out to each household to take the survey. I think this didn't include how the information was collected because its from the government and they don't feel they need to disclose how they go about doing their surveys.
(1975). Statistical data for planning: Prior Lake Reservation. Billings, Mont.: The Group. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076653826
The scholarly journal article with statistics I found was from ESCO. It didn't talk about the Mdewakanton specifically, but it did talk about the Sioux (the Mdewakanton are a band of the Sioux). These statistics are based off women from the population and occurance of breast cancer and diabetes. This did say how the information was collected- women chose to participate and they used medical charts from a certain age group of participants. I think this did include how the data was collected because it was important to understanding the research. No one would believe their data if they didn't include the information they used to obtain the data.
Mahmoodian, S. (1997). Cervical and breast cancer screening rates in Sioux. Southern Medical Journal, 90(3), 316.
Hi Kristy,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post on statistics gathered in a government document and a scholarly journal article.
Wow, the government was quite bold to say that their survey included 100% of the population!
How did the researchers encourage Native American women to participate in this study? Did they survey people in the healthcare environment itself (since they were reviewing medical charts), or elsewhere?
I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
P.S. The scholarly journal article you found was from "Southern Medical Journal".
I'm not exactly sure how they got the women to participate. It just says there was a group of 769 women and they selected 100 of them whos qualificatoins met all of the things they were looking at for the study and they used their medical charts. I'm sure they had to somehow get permission from these women to use their medical charts but it doesn't explicitly say that.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that the researchers did not indicate how they selected the sample. Some researchers do indicate how they located their participants and communicated with them about the study. Not only does it help other researchers, if their strategy to select participants is successful, but also might confirm that they located their participants in an ethical way.
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