background: there is an international emphasis on providing timely and high quality data to monitor progress of countries toward millennium development goals. iran’s multiple indicator demographic and health survey (irmidhs) aimed to provide valid information on population and health outcomes to monitor progress in achieving national priorities and health programs and to assist policy makers to...

This paper focuses on the global and country level implications of government 2.0 initiatives. Government 2.0 focuses on the interactive components of e-government. Government 2.0 interaction ranges from message board entries to more sophisticated options such as polls and electronic voting. The implications of the government 2.0 phenomenon can be far-reaching particularly for emerging and deve...

Researchers and survey designers face the challenge of low data quality as web surveys are often not compelling. Thus, participants’ engagement declines while completing a survey resulting in participants tend to apply satisficing behavior (e.g., speeding, straight-lining) in order to complete the questionnaire or even break-off the completion of the questionnaire. Due to satisficing behavior, ...