The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency warned that it might lower the Philippines' long-term credit rating because the country's budget deficit was widening, tax collection was poor and national debt was unusually large in proportion to the economy.
The VL cases notified occurred where housing conditions, basic sanitation, and garbage collection were poor.
Lymph node involvement was not analysed, as across all centres there was no consistent policy regarding the performance of a pelvic lymph node dissection in patients with low-risk disease, and hence data collection was poor.
The power collection quality is poor, and the wear of the contact strip of a pantograph is uneven.
India's tax-collection system is poor, and the rules are complex and contradictory.
The San Francisco Arts Commission, the city agency responsible for the collection, is especially poor at tracking its unusually large collection of around 2,500 portable works — paintings and other pieces that are supposed to decorate public spaces and buildings.
These approaches represent important developments in addressing mortality estimation in areas where humanitarian access is poor, rigorous data collection is problematic and questions of the geographical distribution of mortality persist.
Data collection has been poor, but several studies suggest that suicides among Vietnam veterans were not elevated.
At times, mortality data collection has been poor and mortality levels could not be derived due to the extent of missing or illogical data in selected surveys and censuses.
Research into looked after children has been limited because: many of the young people have had numerous placements, health and social care professionals have used different terminologies, systems of data collection have been poor and there are complex reasons why children enter the care system.
