We address these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1800 firms located in Portugal and Germany.
We use harmonized surveys of about 10,800 firms around the world, supplemented by indicators of the stringency of employment protection that summarize detailed aspects of the labor legislation.
In order to investigate whether the differences between Eastern and Western countries seen on Table 2 are significant, I pool the Harmonized Histories surveys and run a single-event history model with second conception as the outcome of interest.
Key institutions managing facility surveys, as well as Ministries of Health and energy experts, need to work together to identify and harmonize the best survey questions and electricity indicators relevant to actual delivery of health services.
In accordance with EAC policy to improve public health through harmonized regulation, a regional survey was undertaken during 2012 of the regulation of medical diagnostics and medical devices in the East African Community Partner States.
Collection of information was harmonized with similar surveys carried out by EULAR (European League against Rheumatism; www.eular.org) and TERMIS-EU (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society; www.termis.org).org
SMART methodology is being used to harmonize the country's nutrition surveys, to ensure that trends in the nutrition situation can be tracked over time and compared.
Including countries representing liberal welfare regimes could be one of the ways to go, although it will be a challenge to harmonize the SHARE data with similar surveys from other countries such as the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
Simplified and harmonized clinic-level systems demonstrated in the facility survey were perceived by health care providers to improve standards of OPD care through routine measurement and recording of vitals, routine opt-out testing for HIV and greater flexibility to use available drug stocks for all patients.
Harmonized data-collection is crucial for a comparison of survey results across countries (Huddleston, Niessen, & Tjaden, 2013).
