The phrase "alternatives survey" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to refer to a survey that explores different options or choices, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The alternatives survey revealed various options for improving customer satisfaction."
Alternatives: "options survey" or "choices survey".
We suggest an alternative survey method to accurately estimate changes in area of occupancy over time.
This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey designs produce consumption estimates differentially influenced by contrasting types of survey response error.
The four articles in this volume, as well as other research, point down two paths: (1) continued reliance on RDD, or (2) adoption of alternative survey designs.
While previous studies have documented the extent of net error in alternative survey designs, little is known about the relative influence of the different response errors that underpin a survey estimate.
This finding is robust to alternative survey questions such as migration intention and life satisfaction.
It is entirely possible to use alternative survey methods that are perhaps more suitable to a different ecosystem, or perhaps even characterise fauna in a similar manner to the approach described in this paper for floral health indices (native ratio and non-pest ratio), but discussion of this is beyond the scope of this paper.
While alternative nest count methods have been compared in the field [1], limited sample sizes, small numbers of independent replicates, and an inability to examine variation in survey parameters have hampered investigators' abilities to identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of alternative survey methods.
Passive acoustics offers an alternative survey mode in situations where visual surveys or physical trapping are difficult, expensive, or dangerous.
Despite these advantages of some alternative survey designs, serological surveys do suffer from a number of limitations.
An alternative approach is to use a computer simulation, which has successfully been used to compare alternative survey methodologies for other NTDs 9– 12 and vaccination coverage.
Therefore, we investigated the performance of TAS and alternative survey designs in both regions, using detailed monitoring and evaluation data from the national school-based deworming program.
