These findings are reassuring with regards to the possibility of a reporting bias due to an over-reporting of traffic information among parents suffering from asthma or allergic disorders.
Ignorance of reportable events, lack of awareness of a reporting system, insecurity regarding causation (not possible to ascertain whether the drug caused the reaction) and lack of time are common reasons associated with lack of reporting [ 14, 24- 28].
The results of the external validation did not support the existence of a reporting bias for the observed associations, for all the self-reported traffic indicators examined.
"The arbitrary setting of a reporting deadline, without regard to when the agency that is demanding the reporting is going to make the specifications available, is troublesome".
There were Year 2000 problems that might have been serious under different circumstances, like the failure of a reporting system for radiation levels at Japan's Shika nuclear plant.
Later, after he had packed up and moved to Paris, Alvah talked himself out of a reporting job by remonstrating with his editor, and the testiness continued even when he began to write successful novels and films.
In the course of a reporting trip for a forthcoming article, I've been asking some of the authors and guardians of South African democracy what advice they would offer to an Egypt, a Libya, a Tunisia and other places that are struggling to emerge from various forms of oppressive rule.
Further, the manager would have a concrete basis in the form of a reporting tool for feedback as well to top management.
That means the current generation of news consumers are the beneficiaries of a rich conversation that occurs among sources, the press and the public which, in the end, has resulted in more of a reporting partnership than a soapbox.
This story is part of a reporting partnership between The GroundTruth Project and The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Earlier this year, as part of a reporting fellowship on youth unemployment hosted by The GroundTruth Project, colleague Chika Oduah and I focused on the country's similarly disenfranchised youth.
