Many respondents stressed the role of fragmentation assessments in the endeavor to overcome current spatial mismatches of ecological and administrative scales.
Semi-structured interviews as a method made it possible to comparatively address the same themes and concepts across ecological zones, administrative boundaries and socio-economic conditions, while still allowing for probing into individual experiences and perceptions.
The PRECEDE or evaluative phase, provides a framework for systematically assessing the social, epidemiological, educational and ecological, and administrative and policy aspects of a topic under study.
The other specific objectives were to: 1. Determine associations between climatic (ecological) zone, administrative area (geo political zone), place of usual residence (urban/rural) and other socio-demographic attributes (age, gender, social class, occupational categories, literacy levels etc).
8 Looking for the subak in a multi-ethnic sociocultural, agro-ecological and administrative environment outside Bali is not always that easy.
The finding of an association between interventions and male handwashing, in ecological analysis (comparing administrative areas i.e. panchayats) but not at individual level, suggests that the effect of the interventions on men may have been indirect, via women or neighbours, underlining the need to direct interventions at men as well as women.
This study found a wide variation in the odds of infant death by ecological zone and administrative developmental regions.
We carried out several alternative cases that either introduced other factors or relaxed assumptions in our baseline model about a key ecological, economic, or administrative condition (Table A3).
In a series of ecological studies using administrative data and the census in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for example, Roos and his colleagues found that individuals from poorer neighbourhood had higher utilization rates of physician and hospital services than those from richer neighbourhood after adjusting for age and sex [ 2- 4].
The intra-cluster correlation coefficient is a measure of correlation of observations in a cluster e.g., herds, villages, agro-ecological zones or administrative units.
