Sexual behaviour was assessed using the number of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) partners reported in the year prior to data collection, categorized as 0, 1 or ≥ 2. The dependent variable centred on HIV testing, specifically whether tested within the previous 6 months, 6 12 months previously, 1 5 years previously, over 5 years previously, or never tested.
The measures used for data collection were categorized into sociodemographic characteristics, history of testing, and barriers to testing.
Data collection periods were categorized into first, second, or third trimester of pregnancy, at birth, 0 to 6 months, 7 18 months, 19 60 months, or 5 or more years after birth.
The macro, meso and micro levels of data collection and analysis help categorize the actors and illuminate how the idea of the CLAHRC, both as a national policy and a local programme, has been generated, diffused, shaped and changed [[ 9]: 612].
"The same act of sexual violence could be categorized by one data collection effort as 'rape,' whereas it could be categorized by other efforts as 'assault-sexual' or 'nonconsensual sexual acts,'" the report notes. .
Prior to data collection, chief complaints (CCs) were categorized based on our faculty's clerkship logbook which includes a list of common chief complaints [ 18].
For example, LMIC researchers may be given reduced ranking on the author byline because their contributions to subject recruitment, data collection, administration and analysis are categorized as "technical tasks" and may be considered of lesser value than drafting the manuscript.
Also, our data collection method did not enable categorizing AF into paroxysmal, persistent, or permanent or excluding postoperative AF.
The government has carried out a poverty-mapping exercise, in which it collected data on basic poverty and millennium development goals (MDG) indicators through qualitative data collection and community mapping, and then categorized VDCs according to the data provided.
Network data collection (and subsequent analyses) can be categorized, then, by whether it considers a static network, a cross-sectional realization of an implicitly dynamic network, or an explicitly dynamic network.
These methods vary based on cost, equipment type, the time requirements for data collection and data reduction, and can be categorized into four categories as shown in Table 1.
