However, endpoint data could not be reliably compared to baseline data as survey methodology varied.
Data generators who use sophisticated survey methodologies or information technology models to construct data collection instruments feel themselves firmly on the side of science, whereas policy analysts associate themselves more closely with political and social agendas that are, and should be, value-based.
There are however statistical problems preventing the data from such studies being used as a full correlative data layer to compare with patterns of fisheries activity (i.e. merging species specific distribution and abundance data produced from differing survey methodologies; pers. comm. Simon Northridge NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, UK).
Survey methodologies to rapidly collect data in unknown, dangerous and contested shallow territorial seas are required.
Differently from survey methodologies, our method affords data collection and behavior characterization at the individual level, and thus may be used to inform agent-based modeling approaches.
However, because the database contains data from national surveys that did not use the same survey methodologies, direct comparisons are less reliable.
Adopting a survey methodology, data from a total of 422 participants were gathered through convenience sampling.
Details on study population, sampling strategy, survey methodology, data entry and analysis are provided in the companion paper [ 12].
As with all studies using survey methodology, data collection is limited by selection bias of respondents most interested in the subject matter.
Multiple case study and survey methodologies were used for gathering and analysing qualitative and quantitative data [ 23].
Given the description of survey methodologies as well as discussions with individuals in Serbia who administered the surveys, the data has been deemed as both valid and reliable.
