Table 4: Percentage of board members who indicated that they had various types of information available before making decisions "most of the time" or "always"
Type of information	All boards	Provinces with established boards			Provinces with immature boards		p value (and degrees of freedom)
		Alberta	Saskatchewan	Prince Edward Island	British Columbia	Nova Scotia
Service costs	68	74	80	77	43	56	<0.01 (4)
Service utilization	64	71	67	73	51	70	<0.05 (4)
Population needs	50	60	48	73	48	24	<0.01 (4)
Key informants' opinions	47	60	51	41	37	22	<0.01 (4)
Service benefits	37	39	43	55	26	23	<0.01 (4)
Citizens' preferences	28	31	33	46	18	11	<0.01 (4)
Enough information to make good decisions	67	74	73	77	57	45	<0.01 (4)
Information given in a way that makes it easy for the member to understand	76	86	80	82	67	60	<0.01 (4)

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