He will be posting the materials, instructions, and code online at the end of July.
The structure and design of the census took an initial focus on how the CC would perform the tasks of delivery and collection of the census questionnaires in the field, including all materials, instructions, training and supervision required.
Prescribed material, instructions, and teaching methods in the lesson plans were largely implemented in accordance with the instructions.
The specific risk of bias instrument is provided in Supplemental Material, "Instructions for Making Risk of Bias Determinations".
The instructions to review authors contained specific information on how to evaluate the quality of evidence [see Supplemental Material, "Instructions for rating the quality and strength of human and nonhuman evidence" (UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment 2013)].
We considered whether the study received "support from a company, study author, or other entity having a financial interest in the outcome of the study" (see Supplemental Material, "Instructions for Making Risk of Bias Determinations").
The instructions to review authors also contained information on how to evaluate the human body of evidence for upgrading based on consideration of three factors (animal evidence was not eligible for upgrading because of its initial "high" rating); for details, see Supplemental Material, "Instructions for rating the quality and strength of human and nonhuman evidence".
Two 24-h urine samples 3 months apart were collected on a free-choice diet using mailed collection materials, written instructions, and verbal instruction provided by a study coordinator.
Primary field-test students completed a student evaluation of the materials after instruction.
Since there is a high chance that the annotator is not familiar with construction materials, the instruction shows examples of construction materials (see Fig. 8).
