Second, we use latent class analysis to explore heterogeneity, partitioning the sample into classes characterized by similar patterns of attitudes.
Nigerian society appears to be in a period of social change, as reflected in emerging patterns of attitudes towards violence against women.
Third, the imputation for "don't know" responses may result in narrower confidence intervals for the odds ratio estimates; however, our intent is to provide a relative perspective on willingness to respond and the factors that influence it for a given health department and to identify patterns of attitudes that may influence effectiveness of health departments in emergency situations.
During the interpretation phase we were not only interested in identifying patterns of attitudes within each account, but also between the different accounts.
The patterns of attitudes, knowledge and practices regarding injections among the general population and health professionals observed in Cambodia were similar to those in many countries with high frequencies of injections and comparable healthcare systems such as Pakistan, India, and Indonesia [ 16- 18].
The overall pattern of attitude change indicates the deinstitutionalization of marriage occurred across most countries on most items.
However, when asked about government spending on welfare, a very different pattern of attitudes emerges.
Yet little is known about the social patterning of attitudes toward tobacco control.
Elsewhere, corporate ethics ranks well below other issues.Karlyn Bowman, an observer of social trends at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), argues there has been no break in the overall pattern of attitudes to business as a whole.
That is, either one has some specific attitude (or pattern of attitudes) that one ought not to have or one lacks some specific attitude (or pattern of attitudes) that one ought to have.
