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How are the data in GIDEON collected?

GIDEON - FAQ's
The data in GIDEON are accessed and collated through a system of computer macros and dedicated source lists developed over the past 15 years. A monthly search of Medline is conducted against a listing of all GIDEON key words, and titles / abstracts of interest are reviewed. All available national Health Ministry publications [print and electronic] are scanned, as are standard publications of WHO and CDC.
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How is the child data being collected?

Desired Results access Project - Frequently Asked Questions
The primary service provider for the IEP is responsible for ensuring that every three, four, and five year old child with an IEP (not enrolled in kindergarten) on his or her caseload is assessed reliably and accurately using either the PS DRDP-R (with instructions for use with Children with IEPs) or the DRDP access, regardless of instructional setting or services received. Assessors should observe children and document their progress on an ongoing basis.
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What is GIDEON?

GIDEON - FAQ's
GIDEON is the world's premier global infectious disease knowledge management tool. It is an easy to use online application that helps you diagnose infectious diseases and stay up to date on the latest trends in epidemiology and treatment.
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How are PPI data collected?

Producer Price Index Frequently Asked Questions
When an establishment is selected to participate in the PPI survey, it is visited by a field economist who solicits the firm's voluntary cooperation and informs the firm of the strict confidentiality rules that will safeguard the information being requested. Once cooperation is obtained, the field economist uses the disaggregation technique (see question 8) to select the specific goods or services for which prices will be reported.
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Are any reports generated from the data collected in the Report of Organization?

Economic Census FAQ
This survey is taken primarily to assure full coverage and high quality of other statistical programs, and does not routinely provide data products for public use. Please note however, this survey is a major source of information for the County Business Patterns reports and as a resource in responding to requests for a variety of special reports and reimbursable tabulations.
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How is the data collected from the Report of Organization used?

Economic Census FAQ
The data is used to update the Census Bureau's list of businesses and provides key source data for County Business Patterns and other statistical series. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets.
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When was the data collected?

PSLC--Data
In general all PSLC LiDAR data is collected during the winter/leaf-off season from December to Early April. For a range of dates of when your data was flown reference the metadata. For the exact date and time when a particular area was flown you will need to access the All-returns ASCII data. Each return in the All-returns ASCII data has a time stamp.
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Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals
SEET collects company reports of hazardous releases primarily from the Louisiana State Police (LSP) and the National Response Center (NRC). SEET also identifies releases reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the media. For detailed data, SEET contacts the responsible company, firefighters, police, medical personnel, HAZMAT teams and others who respond to these events.
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Interval Data Systems: EnergyWitness, Enterprise Energy Mana...
EnergyWitness conforms to industry standards for interfacing with BAS, meters, and utilities. OPC is the most commonly used standard to interface with, and collect data from, the various points across your campus or facility. In cases where the data is already collected into a database such as SQL Server, we can read from it directly.
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What can be done with the collected data?

strayer's BZstats - FAQS
In theory, almost anything. The only constraints are performance (database queries), server capacity (for possible caching) and the fact that all data is stored in a compressed form. That means that player data is stored in sessions and the information about the evolution of a player's score within a session cannot be extracted. Without this compression (which saves about 95% of storage space), the servers storage would be exhausted too quickly.
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E&B DATA - Invest Review
The statistics are gathered through a telephone survey of facilities within the high technology industries. The survey was designed and conducted by E&B DATA. The facilities were contacted directly by phone, primarily to confirm their sector of activity, their level of employment and their location.
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Who collected the data?

NES > 2000 Florida Ballots Project > Frequently Asked Questi...
The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducted the data collection. NORC is a research organization with an excellent reputation, developed over half a century, for nonpartisan data collection and analysis.
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Earth Sheltered Homes Heat Storage FAQ - Rocky Mountain Rese...
Enough to show that PAHS works, and works well, but not nearly so much as we would like. One reason for this is that the numbers change so little or not at all and so soon become boring that people simply stop taking them. Before and after measurements have been taken that show clearly that the application of the insulation/watershed umbrella quickly stabilizes the underground temperature and it begins to rise up to a comfortable room temperature of about 70o F. (21o C.)
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National Directory of Managed Care Organizations
All the data in the National Directory of Managed Care Organizations has been collected directly from the organizations themselves, by regular surveys in the mail, by fax and e-mail, state government agencies with whom plans must file reports, CMS Medicare data, the MCOs' public Web site postings, other public sources of information, documents we obtain (annual and quarterly reports) news releases received here, proprietary data files developed, gathered and maintained by the Managed Care Inform.
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Frequently Asked Questions | Stop Clicking
Data is collected from people originating from the PPC search engine that you specifically added our software tracking tags to. Thereafter, we collect the following information from users: Unique Identifier String: Identifies users by a unique number (UI) placed by our software as a cookie. (If the cookies are not allowed, a user session ID is used.) By using a UI string, you can identify separate users sharing the same IP address, such as those using dial-up or an AOL proxy server.
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Environmental Epidemiology & Toxicology
SEET collects company reports of hazardous releases primarily from the Louisiana State Police (LSP) and the National Response Center (NRC). SEET also identifies releases reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the media. For detailed data, SEET contacts the responsible company, firefighters, police, medical personnel, HAZMAT teams and others who respond to these events. Yes, SEET obtains information from all knowledgeable parties.
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CLOC - Frequently asked Questions
The initial baseline data were collected between 1987-88. Subsequent waves of data were collected over the next five years, until 1994.
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When will reports be published based on data collected in the 2002 Economic Census?

Economic Census FAQ
Publication will begin in early 2005. the most widely used numbers are available free through the Census Bureau's web site http://www.census.gov
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Are any reports generated from the data collected in the Annual Survey of Manufactures?

Economic Census FAQ
Yes. Statistics for Industry Groups and Industries reports provide industry statistics for the U.S. about 12 months after each year. Data include industry shipments, value added, inventories, materials, employment, hours and payroll. Value of Product S
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How are data collected, recorded, and analyzed using the PRISM?

Data are collected through face-to-face interviews with subjects and coded on the PRISM booklet. The interview takes approximately two hours to administer, and is easily adapted for specific research purposes. The PRISM is a contingency questionnaire, routing interviewers to relevant questions depending on subject responses. Therefore, although the instrument allows for the investigation of many variables, only a subset of PRISM questions is administered to any single subject.
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For how long a time period is data expected to be collected?

Schizophrenia Update - Series 2, Issue 15 - July 20, 2004 Pa...
We are collecting data for the next four years. We received a grant from the federal government for a 5 year study, and we've already completed about one year.
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How often will data be collected for a given geographic area?

ICESat/GLAS: Frequently Asked Questions
The first several months of ICESat operations were in an orbit that repeated ground tracks every eight days for calibration and validation purposes. During the subsequent mission phase, ICESat has been in an orbit that repeats ground tracks every 91 days. See ICESat Reference Orbit Ground Tracks for more information.
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How are ethnic data collected?

CSU | Analytic Studies | Frequently Asked Questions
African American. All persons descending from any of the black racial groups of Africa (except those of Latino origin). American Indian or Alaskan Native. All persons descending from any of the original people of North America, and who maintain cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition. Asian American. All persons descending from any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent.
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