It is often difficult to determine what actually was done in work involving data collected with stated preference surveys because the terms used to describe various procedures have ambiguous and sometimes conflicting meanings. Further, terms used to describe data collection procedures often are confounded with terms used to describe statistical techniques. We call for the use of a common nomenc...

For instance, for Reagan Moore 1 , “The emergence of policy-based data management systems has made it possible to consider preservation as one of the stages of a data life cycle. Each stage represents a consensus by a user community on the purpose of the collection, the policies that will be used to control desired collection properties, the procedures that will enforce the policies, and the me...

This paper describes an overview and illustrative example for creating a portable data-collection system using Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools for the Pocket PC. A description of the Visual Basic programming language is given, along with examples of computer code procedures for developing data-collection software. Program specifications, strategies for customizing the collection system, and tro...

Depending on the concrete application field and the data collection situation, conjoint experiments can end up with a low internal validity of the estimated part-worth functions. One of the known reasons for this is the (missing) temporal stability and structural reliability of the respondents’ part-worth functions, another reason is the (missing) attentiveness of the respondents in an uncontro...

Fetal & Neonatal Cardiology Program, Division of Cardiology and Neonatology, Women’s & Children’s 5 Health Research Institute, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 6 Alberta Canada. 7 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada 8 Current Affiliation 9 Department of Pediatrics, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada (EFP) 10 Dep...