These data were compiled from a combination of aerial photography, local survey, local authority records and other sources (see Additional File 1: Appendix Table 1 for recorded flood events and boundary sources).
Dr Richardson said: "The aim is to survey local authorities in England to ascertain how they are meeting their obligations, under the Housing Act 2004, to analyse the needs of Gypsies and Travellers in their area".
Volunteer rangers are carrying out "latrine surveys", the authority said.
Box 1 Example of population based scenarios and clinical vignettes Self-rating of understanding : 41 QUESTIONS USED IN TELEPHONE SURVEY Some authorities recommend that diagnostic decisions be made first by obtaining a test's sensitivity and specificity, estimating the prevalence of disease (in the patient under evaluation), then calculating a positive or negative predictive value.
Self-rating of understanding: 41 QUESTIONS USED IN TELEPHONE SURVEY Some authorities recommend that diagnostic decisions be made first by obtaining a test's sensitivity and specificity, estimating the prevalence of disease (in the patient under evaluation), then calculating a positive or negative predictive value.
This week the newsweekly ZETA released its own analysis surveying state authorities and other data and found the number of organized crime homicides far higher than what the government had reported.
Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), a national partnership of organisations focused on transforming health and social care through personalisation, surveyed local authorities to try and find out more about their systems and the way in which their quality data is used.
The report, which includes a survey of local authority leaders, warns of a "tsunami of cumulative funding cuts", with many reporting little choice but to ramp up "sales, fees and charges".
By testing the framework in the Algarve, a proposed set of common local indicators was developed and presented in the survey for local authority evaluation.
The research team conducted a national survey of health authority executives and then carried out in-depth case studies of six geographically dispersed organizations from across Canada to first determine what high performance is with respect to priority setting practice and then determine key elements that help describe this construct for decision makers.
A 2007 survey of local authorities showed that they were investing £300m in BaE alone.
