In the few surveys that capture perceptions on ownership, about 23-53% of participants report that the participant themselves are the owners of the samples [ 25, 41, 42].
African Ancestry asks clients to confirm that they have the right to submit samples from others: "By submitting a sample for analysis, the Customer warrants that it has the right to take and submit the sample and that it does so either as owner of all samples involved or with full authority of the owner of all such samples" [ 22].
In September 2008 Oregon State University and Oregon Department of Forestry funded and administered a mail survey to owners of a random sample of NIPF parcels in eastern Oregon's ponderosa pine ecosystem.
The survey data collected in 2012 from 1.400 private forests owners (random samples of 350 private forests owners in each of the four countries), show a relatively high degree of willingness (38 55% of the respondents) to manage their forests in order to produce woody biomass.
Written informed consent was obtained from the human patients and owners of dogs before collection of samples.
The authors are grateful to the owners of the sheep flocks sampled in the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees for allowing and collaborating in sampling.
We used a national online web panel to sample owners of 1- and 2-family homes, and descriptive methods to analyze the resulting data.
Each category of the sample (owners of RSS homes, owners of non-RSS homes, general population, Black/African American oversample, Hispanic oversample) was weighted using the 2011 Current Population Survey (http://www.census.gov/cps/methodology/) by the following key demographic variables: household income, education, age, gender, and region.
All samples should be accompanied by the following information: name, address, telephone/fax numbers of sender; telephone/fax numbers for official reporting of results, if different from above; name, address and contact numbers of owner; date of sampling and submission; type and number of samples (including whether on ice, preserved, etc).; disease suspected and tests required.
All participating cats were considered healthy by the owners at the time of sample collection.
We thank the horse owners for contributing samples.
