This chapter provides an overview of surveys professional forecasters, with a focus on the U.S. Survey Professional Forecasters and European Central Bank Forecasters. A distinguishing feature these is that they collect point density forecasts make data publicly available. We discuss their structure, issues involved in using data, construction measures such as disagreement uncertainty at aggrega...

Context. In the present-day panorama of large spectroscopic surveys, amount, diversity, and complexity available data continuously increase. The overarching goal studying formation evolution our Galaxy is hampered by heterogeneity instruments, selection functions, analysis methods, measured quantities. Aims. We present a comprehensive catalogue, Survey Surveys (SoS), built homogeneously merging...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the fertility differential of women age 15 to 49 using data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2014- a survey of women who were born from 1963 to 1999. METHODS The secondary data analysis was carried out using the BDHS 2014 in order to discuss differences in childbearing practices in Bangladesh. Descriptive statistics were used to ana...

BACKGROUND Nonadherence is a well-known problem among schizophrenia patients, among whom relapse is fivefold more likely, adversely affecting health, employment, and social functioning. The Spanish Adherencia Terapéutica en la Esquizofrenia (ADHES) survey was developed to determine the scope and causes of medication nonadherence in schizophrenia. METHODS The 20-question ADHES survey was distr...

Measures from the Social Context Module of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System were used on 2 population-based health surveys in Hawaii to explicate the role of the nonmedical and social determinants of health; these measures were also compared with conventional socioeconomic status (SES) variables. Results showed that the self-reported SE...

This study examined the perceived importance of the 22 characteristics of effective clinical instructors as identified by Katz in 1982. Using a questionnaire survey instrument, a random sample of 354 nurse anesthesia program directors, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist clinical instructors, first-year nurse anesthesia students, and second-year nurse anesthesia students from across the Unit...

Surveys conducted in the context of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) programme are an important source of data on health of families in developing countries. Both at the national and international level, DHS surveys provide much-needed data on fertility and family planning, on mortality and nutrition, and on health services utilization. The use of uniform survey instruments allows detai...

There is an anecdotal need to increase radiology education in medical school. Surveys were distributed to three medical schools, with a respondency of 55 %. Over 91 % of students believed there should be more radiology teaching in medical school. Students prefer different methods of teaching, lectures, group learning, and web-based modules.

This paper identifies one possible set of appropriate disciplinary content for undergraduate programs in sustainability, based on a survey instrument employed at two international sustainability events in 2005. Undertaken to supplement the focus in the sustainability education literature on generic skills and pedagogical method via case-based or broadly conceptual work, it seeks to assist curri...

Turkey has been experiencing significant fertility decline since the 1950s. Increasing mean ages at childbearing have accompanied this decline, thus studies regarding tempo effects are necessary for Turkey. The main aim of this study is to reveal the tempo distortions in recent period fertility in Turkey as a whole and for different sub-groups by using an adjustment procedure. A procedure by Bo...