In cases where multiple surveys were available for an individual country, we used the most recent survey to derive multi-country means for a variable.
Respondents were queried about their individual preferences on the five stated health system goals in a total of 51 countries, in some of which multiple surveys were performed, and country means were calculated on the basis of these individual responses [ 18].
The purpose of multiple-round surveys was to capture the spatial and temporal dynamics in factors viewed as important by businesses in their decision making, and enable subsequent quantitative modeling and prediction over both time and space.
CIERPA, a local research firm with experience in Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, was hired to conduct the survey within country.
Multiple pilot surveys were completed to ensure clarity and comprehension.
The purpose of multiple round surveys is to capture the spatial and temporal dynamics in business attitudes that influence their decision making and to enable subsequent quantitative modeling and prediction over both time and space.
Multiple aerial surveys were used to estimate total run size for the Anvik River and Koktuli River populations, but only single aerial counts were available for the Tubutulik River population.
What would constitute 'excessive' is an ethical, sociological and scientific question: what might be excessive for certain individual patients, or groups of patients, might not be for others; participating in multiple surveys might be adjudicated differently from participation in several clinical trials in a short time frame.
The multiple question survey was distributed to all residents at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in December 2002 [21] and December 2004, before and after the implementation of the ACGME duty hour requirements, respectively.
Indisputably, the main and important down side of working with multiple choice based surveys is the loss of the fundamental benefit of an open question that allows the respondent to freely and unlimitedly elaborate on each specificity of its criminal justice system and go into every exception.
