We believe it would be helpful to study the nature of taxonomies from different points of view in order to examine questions such as; are there common features in all taxonomic systems?, are the systems neutral?, and how are classifications and data collection (surveys) linked?
CM was part to quantitative data collection surveys and was later delegated the coordination responsibility in Zambia.
Evaluating health care systems through the use of demographic data collection, surveys, or focus groups alone – as is often done in health system assessments – cannot adequately elucidate the intricacies of a country's health care system.
Nonetheless, the focused efforts at construct triangulation, drawing upon multi-methods data collection (survey, chart abstraction, qualitative interviews) provide the potential for advancing measurement sophistication in this nascent field of inquiry.
The Department of Education, and its Office for Civil Rights, is to be applauded for reinstating this crucial data collection survey and creating an extensive data tracking system.
The graduation rate as the federal government currently defines it in the IPEDS database (IPEDS = fed speak for Institutional Postsecondary Education Data System, the annual data collection survey for colleges and universities) is not a measure of educational quality.
The authors would like to thank Marcia Rock for her management of study activities, Win Morgan for managing the online data collection survey, and Robert Steinglass and Pat Taylor for their careful review of the report.
Museum data collection, survey efforts and descriptive ecological studies are essential steps in the research of community ecology and are often the only predictive tools available for bioinvasion management, particularly in poorly studied estuarine and marine coastal areas.
Data collection: survey, mixed mode by means of the Dillman method.
The generalizability of results may be limited by errors associated with the sampling frame for study participants, mail survey data collection, survey non-response, and item non response.
During the study, 14 women withdrew after giving birth, leaving 346 women available for data collection (survey results and microbiological data) at defined time-points postpartum.
