The overall unemployed rate was 10.2%, the same as the official unemployment rate at October 2005 in Germany (10.4% Federal Statistic Office), indicating a good representativeness of the study population to the general German population with regard to social status.
The good representativeness of the integrated sampling scheme and the standardization of all experimental phases yielded high precision of results.
We ensured of the good representativeness of each development style in the different clusters, by computing and analyzing the index of qualitative variance (IQV) of each cluster.
This index reflects the good representativeness of the different styles (different systems) in the different clusters (different systems are represented in clusters).
Furthermore, our study had notable strengths: tried and tested methodology [33 35, 59], large sample size, high participation rate and good representativeness of the diverse population of Nepal [33, 34].
Almost all studies met the NOS criteria for case definition and had good representativeness of cases.
Especially good representativeness of the Estonian PD population was achieved for the patient groups with mild and moderate disease.
For the External Validity section, all studies received full scores, which meant they had a good representativeness of the researchers, subjects and devices.
The comparative presentation of workstation evaluations from the years 2000 to 2005 (n = 7,622), extracted from the BiFra database, and of the results of the presented study revealed the good representativeness of working conditions investigated in the survey.
The number of sentinel GPs, as well as the representativeness of the network in terms of GP's activity, has progressively improved to reach a quite good representativeness (it represents 12% of all GPs in Guadeloupe in 2008) with a high weekly participation rate (85% on average in 2008).
