Table 3: Percentage of board members who agreed with response to questions about whom they feel accountable to or represent
		Provinces with established boards			Provinces with immature boards
Question and response	All boards	Alberta	Saskatchewan	Prince Edward Island	British Columbia	Nova Scotia	p value*
To whom do you feel most accountable for your decisions?†							NS§
All of the local citizens	72	64	71	77	79	66
Provincial taxpayers	13	15	13	14	8	25
Local citizens from the group I represent	6	4	7	5	8	3
Minister of health	4	13	2	0	1	0
Local health care providers and institutions	2	1	3	5	1	3
Ministry of health	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	3	4	3	0	2	3
In your role as a board member, who (if anyone) do you feel you represent?‡							NS
Everyone in locality	71	76	73	81	63	65
Interests of specific group	19	18	17	5	23	32
Interests of specific geographic area	10	6	10	14	14	3
Even if a decision is opposed by the majority of citizens in my community, I will support it if I believe it is the right decision	84	92	89	86	72	87	< 0.01
*p value from chi2 test. †Respondents could choose only 1 response; totals may not sum to 100 because of rounding. ‡Question was open-ended, responses were classified into mutually exclusive categories. The following responses were included in "Everyone in locality": "the District as a whole," "the constituents," "the region," "the public" and "the community." The following responses were included in "Interests of specific groups": "consumers," "health care providers," "employees," "taxpayers," "women," "aboriginals." The following responses were included in "Interests of specific geographic area": "rural area," "my town," "my local area," "my community." §NS = not significant.

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