Forest regeneration surveys: Design, data collection, and analysis

surveys : issues in data collection on multitasking

Secondary-activity reports from the American Time Use Survey are not as good as those from the Family Interaction, Social Capital, and Trends in Time Use survey; statistical analysis reveals that the difference is attributable to the fact that such reports are requested in the former, but volunteered in the latter T ime-use surveys collect information on how people spend their time. In the Amer...

Ethical Considerations for Data Collection Using Surveys.

Surveys are widely used instruments to collect research data. Although surveys may appear relatively benign and easily unlinked to participants, considerations for the ethical conduct of research with surveys are important. Maintaining scientific rigor is essential. This article explores ethical tenets in relation to informed consent and scientific consent when using surveys.

Digital data collection in forest dynamics plots

1. Computers are widely used in all aspects of research but their application to in-field data collection for forest plots has rarely been evaluated. 2. We developed digital data collection methods using ESRI mapping software and ruggedized field computers to map and measure 30 000 trees in two 4-ha forest dynamics plots in wet and dry tropical forest inHawaii.We then compared our data collecti...

PCs or paper-and pencil:online surveys for data collection.

Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Collection

In the social sciences, there is a longstanding tension between data collection methods that facilitate quantification and those that are open to unanticipated information. Advances in technology now enable new, hybrid methods that combine some of the benefits of both approaches. Drawing inspiration from online information aggregation systems like Wikipedia and from traditional survey research,...