"...created on March 7 , 1993...toprovide the region with a center of research and studies relating to gender and the status of women, of advocacy for the improvement of women's status and of data collection, indicators and statistics". The overseas research center of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies AIMSS).
Development of objectives and data collection indicators will facilitate collaboration both within the CO and with the Government of Nepal about progress of implementation, strategies to address identified needs, and resource allocation.
Although small pilot studies to assess data collection, indicator computation, data sending and data analyses are commonly executed prior to national PI implementation [ 6], thorough evaluations of reliability and validity of the PIs after implementation, are scarce [ 8, 9].
Before recommending inclusion of indicators into any national data collection system, indicators will need testing for validity and then for feasibility and usefulness, as per the steps of the measurement improvement plan (see Figure 1 and 7).
However, during data collection some indicators that were considered important were not available, i.e. even if indicators related to funding for IPV programmes would have been important to collect, they were unavailable.
Overall, we found few meaningful differences by mode of data collection for indicators of cancer screening.
Data collection methods, indicators of effects, outcomes and a data-analysis plan will also be discussed, as well as the roles and responsibilities of each team member.
Despite this, most of the literature on stakeholder participation associated with sustainability indicators focuses on participation in the design and development of indicator systems (e.g. in indicator selection) or in data collection for indicator calculation.
As hospitals are free to choose which scores to be uploaded, we conclude that for both indicator sets the heterogeneous data collection and indicator computation largely affects the comparability of hospital performance.
Attempts were made to standardize the structure, process and intermediate outcome indicator definitions, as well as the data collection and indicator computation instructions.
We aimed to investigate the extent to which local hospital data collection and indicator computation strategies differ and how this affects the plausibility of self-reported indicator scores, using survey results of 42 hospitals and data of the Dutch national quality database.
