Each interviewer is instructed to locate and interview people who fulfill the characteristics targeted for the quota sample.
These strategies are reflected in business models, and differ in terms of temporal focus, motivation and shielding characteristics targeted.
Understanding the desired characteristics, target population, and expected impact of an anti-gonococcal vaccine is essential to facilitate vaccine design, assessment and implementation.
For maximum variation, key characteristics targeted during recruitment were, mothers and fathers, young (<30 years of age) and older (≥30 years of age) mothers, and both self-reported minorities and new immigrants.
Biuw et al. [23] showed that water characteristics targeted by elephant seals varied substantially between populations and general oceanic regions in a circumpolar context.
Brain cells have been classified by location, morphology, electrophysiological characteristics, target specificity, molecular markers and gene expression patterns [14 17].
Extracted data included study characteristics, population characteristics (target population, age and gender distribution, and setting), intervention characteristics (simple vs complex, description of intervention), outcome measures (primary and secondary), results and authors' conclusions.
Data were collected on design, intervention characteristics, target group, recruitment methods, delivery mode, number of sessions, attrition rates, control group, outcome measures and effect sizes (post-test and at follow up of at least 3 months).
32 34 Study characteristics, target populations and a high-level description of each care transition intervention will be summarised by intervention type (ie, pre-discharge, bridging or post-discharge intervention).
