The main instrument for collection of data in DLHS-3 was a set of structured questionnaires.
STEPS, the standard instrument for collection, analysis, and dissemination of NCD data, will soon provide the first nationally representative information on NCDs.
SAGE used a standardized instrument for collection of sociodemographic information and behavioral risk factors based on the WHO STEPwise approach to Surveillance (WHO STEPS, WHO 2005).
As the instrument was prepared drawing on a national expert group with support of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, this likely represents the best developed instrument for collection of service utilisation data in Australia.
Participants were instrumented for collection of continuous R-R intervals with a lead II electrocardiogram (Colin Pilot 9200, Colin Medical Instruments, San Antonio, Texas) and respiratory rate by belt transducer (Pneumotrace II, ADInstruments, Colorado Springs, Colorado) secured around the thorax.
In the first year (October 2006 07) we will also develop the instrument for collection of data with the key informants and the probes for the focus groups with human resources personnel and employers, both of which will be informed by the preliminary findings of the family caregiver dataset.
These Working Groups developed the instruments for data collection, the protocols for biospecimen collection, processing, and distribution, and the data dictionaries to be used at the Informatics Center.
The use of smartphones as suitable instruments for data collection is growing [23, 24].
We acknowledge that common method variance could be a factor given our use of survey instruments for data collection.
Henry II used the Jewish community as "instruments for the collection of money for the Crown", and placed them under royal protection.
