In another experiment meant to measure availability of government information, ADC sent 49 information requests to various government ministries.
Plants consumed were identified through micro-histological analysis of faecal samples collected from three species over several seasons, and quadrats (0.5 m × 0.5 m) were allocated to patches within each of the main landscapes to measure availability of resources.
We measured availability of HIV indicators as the outcome of interest.
The MacArthur Studies of Successful Ageing [ 77] questions were used as a base to measure availability of emotional and practical support.
Ystgaard developed the questions for adolescents in accordance with corresponding studies on adults and aimed at measuring availability of support, attachment and mutual care [ 46].
In particular, among the different ways to measure availability of social support, whether or not an older individual had been widowed was one of the few factors that appeared to be relatively important for older parent's psychological wellbeing.
However, we did not directly measure availability of services, only use of service, so future research should investigate how the availability of services, for example, the number of trained pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapists, influences access to and utilization of therapy services.
14, 15 In Lufwanyama, we measured availability of medicines on the day of the survey and did not capture reports of stockouts; and in Mulanje and Bougouni, a stockout of one of the three medicines only contributed one-third of a stockout day.
31 While others have used measures such as the modified retail food environment index, 32 which measures the availability of healthy relative to unhealthy food stores, ratio measures may obscure differential variation across food outlet types.
