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Appendix A

Breakdown of Sample by Area



Area # Participants # Nonparticipants
City-as-School 81 60
Kalamazoo 72 78
LaGuardia 75 61
Lehigh 32 68
Philadelphia 74 56
Total 334   323   


Case Outcomes

Outcome # Participants # Nonparticipants
Complete 334   323  
Partially complete 10   8
Nonparticipant with interns N/A     113  
No program 47 N/A    
Possibly no program   1 N/A    
Business closed   0 19
Refusal 12 108  
Begun, but broken off   8 18
Language difficulty   1   8
Sample problem, possible duplicate   5   0
No answer   9 33
Busy   1   4
Answering machine 23 41
Answering service   0   3
Unable to locate   4 46
General callback (attempts
were made until the end of
the survey period)
93 176  


Previous Next Title Page Contents Bailey, T., Hughes, K., & Barr, T. (1998). Achieving scale and quality in school-to-work internships: Findings from an employer survey (MDS-902). Berkeley: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California.

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