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Cellphone Numbers

cellphone numbers: Digits in the phone numbers dialed were generated randomly to reach households with unlisted and listed landline and cellphone numbers, according to Times Colonist. As is done routinely in surveys, results were weighted, or adjusted, to ensure that responses accurately reflect the population's makeup by factors such as age, sex, education, employment status and race. In addition, the weighting took into account patterns of phone use landline only, cellphone only and both by region and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Poll on the attitudes of Americans age 50 and over on work and retirement was conducted from Aug. 8-Sept. 10 by NORC at the University of Chicago. It is based on landline and cellphone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,024 adults 50 years old and older. Interviews included 815 respondents on landline telephones and 209 on cellphones. Interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.