However, some limitations regarding the representativeness of the workers participating in the present study must be noted.
While a formal analysis of nonrespondents was not possible, we have the impression that workers on night shifts responded less than day-shift workers, which would limit the representativeness of our results to mainly day shift baggage handling, and also that some team managers were less active in encouraging their team members into participating.
For health workers, more attention should be placed on the representativeness of the sampling frame in order to extrapolate results to the general population, and the sampling strategy to ensure adequate size of subgroups if significant post hoc analysis by different characteristics is planned [ 29, 63].
The local computer-based registration systems of the respective units of healthcare services provide anonymous data on representativeness of participants compared to all patients in the unit, their service needs and healthcare workers (staff composition, age, education).
The non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Withney tests have confirmed that the weight system guarantees the representativeness of the total population by augmenting the representativeness for the most elusive segment of the population (irregular migrants, irregular workers and recently arrived migrants) and solving potential problems of under-coverage for these categories.
Second, the representativeness of task performance samples analysed by such tools is often dubious, partly because in many jobs it is common for workers to perform a variety of tasks for variable amounts of time, which makes it impracticable for observers to take adequate account of all physical exposures and their durations [ 29, 53, 56].
"There is concern about the representativeness of it," he said.
The director said he felt that the couple were representativeness of an admirable "prudishness" which was central to Iranian society.
Without dramatic improvements in the representativeness of government in both Congo and Rwanda, this week's peace accord will be another victim of this hideous conflict.
Representativeness - A relevant concern for working on non-administrative data relates the representativeness of the dataset.
