Involving hard-to-reach ethnic minorities in low-budget health research: lessons from a health survey among Moluccans in the Netherlands

Table 2 Overview of the distribution of respondents, questionnaires and response rates for each Moluccan District

Moluccan district	Respondents (N)	Questionnaires distributed (N)	Response rate (%)
Maastricht	80	137	58
Den Helder	35	76	46
Bovensmilde	63	165	38
Lunteren	68	203	34
Breukelen	21	67	31
Waalwijk	25	80	31
Nistelrode	46	179	26
Middelburg	67	269	25
Oost-Souburg/Vlissingen	32	141	23
Zwolle	43	198	22
Vught	26	126	21
Assen	45	219	21
Capelle aan den Ijssel	44	220	20
Ridderkerk	13	66	20
Groningen	18	96	19
Hoogeveen	20	115	17
Vaassen	29	232	13
Wierden	18	151	12
Breda	18	212	9
On request ^a	4	4	–
Total	715	2956	24

^aOn request revers to respondents who were not recruited via the presented recruitment strategies but via verbal transmission

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