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Table 4 Number of DPOH1 who participated in communications with industry- and non-industry-affiliated stakeholders by rank (N = 7150).2

From: Lobbying and nutrition policy in Canada: a quantitative descriptive study on stakeholder interactions with government officials in the context of Health Canada’s Healthy Eating Strategy

Rank

Communications with industry stakeholders (n = 6345)

n (%)

Communications with non-industry stakeholders (n = 805)

n (%)

Parliamentarians and their staff

4807 (67)

719 (10)

Prime Minister’s Office

321 (4)

17 (< 1)

Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries

406 (6)

35 < 1)

Ministerial staff

1561 (22)

99 (1)

Members of Parliament, Senators, and their staff

2519 (35)

568 (8)

Civil Servants

1538 (22)

86 (1)

Privy Council Office

39 (1)

5 (< 1)

Deputy Ministers

249 (3)

6 (< 1)

Assistant Deputy Ministers or the functional head of an agency or crown corporation

570 (8)

24 (< 1)

Other government officials

680 (10)

51 (1)

  1. 1 A designated public office holder was accounted for more than once if they participated in multiple communications
  2. 2 Certain communications occurred with multiple designated public office holders simultaneously, and each individual was included in the sample denominator