The method of household selection differed among the three study sites, as a result of varying numbers of MHO member households available in each MHO catchment area, and the different number and size of MHOs included in the study for each country.
Based on this framework, this study distinguishes the effect of adaptation methods on household income levels in situations where pastoral, semi-pastoral, agro-pastoral and mixed-farming communities confront multiple effects of climate change and whose income level is thought to be highly fluctuating.
We are still waiting for computers to help us identify whom we may safely marry, scanners to locate our lost keys, elegant ways of answering our post-religious spiritual longings, carbon-free turbines, reliable methods of eradicating household moths and medicines to ensure eternal life.
A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight alternative methods of measuring household consumption, finding significant differences between consumption reported by the benchmark personal diary and other diary and recall formats.
We employ a mixed-method approach of household surveys, a discrete choice experiment and ethnographic interviews, to ascertain historical and present uses of the river, and residents' preferences for future change to the river.
Different methods of contacting households were chosen depending on whether or not the household was listed in the directory.
However, its applicability requires appropriate data sets (household-level effect and cost data) which will require that we revise the traditional methods and tools of household surveys to ensure concurrent collection of household-level effect and cost data.
The use of vacuum bags from the homes of study participants is a validated and cost-effective method of collecting household dust samples for a range of organic and inorganic chemicals in epidemiologic studies (Colt et al. 1998, 2008).
One of the major advances in the past decade for health equity studies in LMICs is the development of an asset index calculated using principal components analysis (PCA), generally regarded as a valid, reliable, and easily interpreted method of measuring household wealth [ 16, 20, 21].
Stone Lions Environmental Corporation collected house dust samples using current state-of-the-art method for household dust sampling which involves using the HVS-3 forensic vacuum or a Sears Kenmore canister vacuum model 22085 sampling system.
