Environmental Scan 2017: Human Capital Issues within the Medical Devices Sector
ii)
Companies that were unwilling to disclose their number of employees during pre-survey
call (21 companies)
- The sampling frame is stratified based on several characteristics which include
employment size. Hence, these companies are excluded from the stratification
process.
After removing companies from these two categories, there were in total 203 companies in the
survey sampling frame. Survey invitation emails were sent to all these 203 companies.
In order to encourage higher level of participation among the target companies in the survey, the
following measures were implemented:
1. The survey invitation was sent to companies using MIDA’s email address
2. The survey invitation included a letter of authorization from MIDA
3. Close collaboration with key industry associations to encourage survey participation
among their members
4. Follow-up calls were made regularly during the entire fieldwork period and survey
invitation emails were resent when necessary
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