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Farmers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Control Practices of Rodents in an Agricultural Area of Taiwan
2022
Agronomy
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From our survey sample of 126 farmers, rodents were perceived to be the most problematic for vegetable crops, followed by rice, and then fruit. ...
One-third of the farmers in our survey stated they currently use rodenticides, with crop type, perceived problems caused by rodents, and attitudes toward rodents found to be important explanatory variables ...
Thanks are also given to Yu-Ju Chien of National Taiwan University for advice on the content and design of the questionnaire. ...
doi:10.3390/agronomy12051169
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Statistical News and Notes
1937
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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forms, statements of instruction and other materials pertaining to the collection, tabulation, analysis, or publication of the data from said questionnaire as the Chairman of the Central Statistical Board ...
or agents of the Federal Government, and provided that (ii) it is expected to make combined totals or averages from information obtained from the use of the said questionnaire. ...
doi:10.1080/01621459.1937.10502761
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Identification and analysis of smallholder producers' constraints: applications to Tanzania and Uganda
2015
Development in Practice
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Data Envelopment Analysis as a two-step approach has been used to combine farm efficiency analysis with statistical identification of the factors associated with low performance (e.g. ...
A constraint is here interpreted as anything that prevents an actor or system from achieving its goal. Diverse methods have been applied to constraint analysis for development purposes. ...
Nationally-representative production data was also accessed from national household surveys, and regression analysis was used to guide the formulation of questionnaires. ...
doi:10.1080/09614524.2015.1007924
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Chapter V: Observational Methods of Research
1948
Review of Educational Research
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They include market surveys, attitude and opinion polls; they use various types of questionnaires and interviews; and collect data by personal interview, by mail, and by various combina- tions of these ...
Katz (66) wrote a critical comment distinguishing what he called “survey technic” from opinion polling. ...
doi:10.3102/00346543018005424
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Revisiting the Proximity Principle with Stakeholder Input: Investigating Property Values and Distance to Urban Green Space in Potchefstroom
2020
Land
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Challenges pertaining to the planning of green spaces were emphasised, despite residents' willingness to pay more for such green spaces in close proximity to residential areas, according to the cross-tabulations ...
Our statistical analysis indicated a rejection of the proximity principle in some areas, contradicting internationally accepted theory. ...
Acknowledgments: This research is supported in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Numbers: 116243).
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/land9070235
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Application of foodborne disease outbreak data in the development and maintenance of HACCP systems
2000
Journal of food microbiology
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Classification and cross tabulation of surveillance information relating to aetiological agents, food vehicles and contributory factors facilitates hazard analysis. ...
Improper cooking, inadequate storage, cross-contamination and use of raw ingredients in the preparation of food were the most common factors contributing to outbreaks. ...
the surveillance system for gastrointestinal (Wheeler et al., 1999) . ...
doi:10.1016/s0168-1605(00)00376-7
pmid:11020042
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Trends in Cigarette Smoking in Kenya and the Challenges Impeding Cessation
2019
American Journal of Biological and Environmental Statistics
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This survey has demonstrated that most cigarette smokers are not only well educated but are aware of the dangers of cigarette smoking. ...
It is clear from this study that most cigarette smokers had acquired high school education and above; representing 70% of the respondents. ...
The Directorate of Research and Extension (R&E) of Egerton University is greatly appreciated for facilitating the administration of funds for this work.
Consent for Publication Not applicable. ...
doi:10.11648/j.ajbes.20190501.12
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History of the Uses of Modern Sampling Procedures
1948
Journal of the American Statistical Association
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farms for use in its surveys [69]. ...
(d) Public opinion polls: The practice of surveying public opinion emerged from simple but obscure beginnings in the “straw vote” conducted by newspapers to sense public reactions to candidates and obtain ...
doi:10.1080/01621459.1948.10483247
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Capturing farm diversity with hypothesis-based typologies: An innovative methodological framework for farming system typology development
2018
PLoS ONE
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We illustrate the effects of analysing the diversity from different angles, using different typology objectives and different hypotheses, on typology creation by using an example from Zambia's Eastern ...
Creating typologies is a way to summarize the large heterogeneity of smallholder farming systems into a few farm types. ...
The contents are the responsibility of the producing organizations and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of USAID or the U.S. Government. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0194757
pmid:29763422
pmcid:PMC5953459
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Evaluation of Sustainability Determinants of Small Farming Systems via Participatory Modeling and Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Processes: The Case Study of Heliciculture in Greece
2021
Frontiers in Sustainability
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Apart from the concept circumscription, we use the FCM to provide an in-depth scenario analysis including steady state and dynamic evaluation of driver concepts to receiver concepts in the model. ...
The methodology is applied for the case study of heliciculture farming systems in Greece. ...
of the farming system. ...
doi:10.3389/frsus.2021.629408
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Surveys: Scientific predictions or navel gazing?
2010
Journal of African Elections
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The object of this article is to interrogate the nature of survey research as a scientific tool in general and to trace the development of its use in political and government settings, especially in South ...
We examine the extent to which different survey organisations and researchers heed the prerequisites and demands of scientific methods in research and, more especially, the methodologies used in surveys ...
Most privately-owned research organisations that conduct political opinion surveys are fairly small companies that specialise in designing the questionnaire to be used, tabulating the answers, analysing ...
doi:10.20940/jae/2010/v9i2a9
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Cultural perceptions of small urban wetlands: Cases from the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
2003
Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Results of the survey show that the study participants are aware of the wetlands in their midst but are not especially observant of or knowledgeable about 'their' sites, nor do they visit their wetlands ...
We surveyed residents of three urban communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada for their knowledge about and perceptions of a small wetland in each of their respective neighborhoods ...
Analysis included generating descriptive statistics (frequency distributions, average Likert scores) and comparing the frequency distributions of responses between the three study groups using cross-tabulations ...
doi:10.1672/0277-5212(2003)023[0921:cposuw]2.0.co;2
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Using Former Farmland for Biomass Crops: Massachusetts Landowner Motivations and Willingness to Plant
2014
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
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In western Massachusetts, where almost 90 percent of former farmland is no longer in commercial use, we study factors that motivate landowners to grow biomass energy crops. ...
A geographic information system model identifies a landowner population, and a contingent valuation survey reveals payments landowners are willing to accept (WTA) for growing biomass crops. ...
While the survey sample is slightly older, is better educated, and has slightly higher income than the general landowner population in this region, cross-tabulation of demographic characteristics with ...
doi:10.1017/s1068280500005529
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Does socio-Demographic Variables Matter in Explaining Issues and Challenges in Islamic Microfinance? Evidence from Malaysia
2019
KnE Social Sciences
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Methodology-It adopts the quantitative research methodology where primary data is collected using survey questionnaires administered on 393 women entrepreneurs who are currently clients of AIM's Islamic ...
The descriptive and cross-tabulation analyses are applied in efforts to understand the influence of socio-demographic factors (age, education level, duration with AIM, and times of receiving financing) ...
Table 4 : 4 Results of Cross-tabulation Analysis. ...
doi:10.18502/kss.v3i13.4253
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Primates on the farm – spatial patterns of human–wildlife conflict in forest-agricultural landscape mosaic in Taita Hills, Kenya
2020
Applied Geography
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Semi-structured questionnaire was used in the primary data collection from the households, and statistical tests were performed. ...
The study could not show that a specific type of food crop in a farm or type of land use/ land cover inside the wildlife corridor between the farmland and the forest boundary explain households' vulnerability ...
of Education of Finland (http://cimo.innofactor.com/programmes/hei_ici_index/programmes /hei_ici/projects/taitagis), and funding from the Academy of Finland for TAITAWATER, and the funds provided from ...
doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102185
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