- This study was partially funded by SDC, which financed data collection and the travel expenses to Zurich for the Ossetian researcher to participate in data analyses.
This method of data collection has the following drawbacks: expenses for the decoding of handwritten symbols from the tally sheets; expenses for data input into the database; observers can be irresponsible, etc.
Study participants are not given financial compensation for their time, but they are given $5USD towards transport expenses for data collection appointments.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/12/113/prepub We sincerely express our appreciation to the organization Etiopia-Utopia for covering the expenses of data collection for this research.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2393/14/137/prepub We sincerely express our appreciation to the organization Etiopia-Utopia for covering the expenses of data collection for this research.
But the expense of data collection and processing had forced offline businesses to stick to measuring just the big stuff, and thus only to value big wins rather than examining the fine grains of their activities for small but useful improvements.
The sample size used in this study was determined based on the expense of data collection and expedience.
However, the lack of well-developed and accessible scoring systems, along with the expense of data collection, seems to have inhibited the use of microscale tools, because there are few published reports using microscale data [ 9, 27, 34, 35].
Todd's analysis demonstrated that the $20,000 CRM costs were swamped by the additional expenses of training, data collection, data analysis, information dissemination, and implementation programs.
The Arthur Thomson Trust provided a bursary for travel expenses incurred during data collection.
