survey instrument

collocation in English

meaningsofsurveyandinstrument

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survey
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɜː.veɪ/
us
/ˈsɝː.veɪ/
an examination of opinions, behaviour, etc., made by asking ...
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instrument
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
us
/ˈɪn.strə.mənt/
an object, such as a piano, guitar, or drum, that is played to produce ...
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(Definition ofsurveyandinstrumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thesurveyinstrumentwas developed and refined using focus groups and pretesting.
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After revising several questions, the finalsurveyinstrumentwas developed.
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When an existing tool is not available, the health plan collaborates withsurveyinstrumentdevelopment experts to formulate a reliable and valid measurement tool.
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Thesurveyinstrumentwas newly designed for this research, but utilized questions drawn from a number of earlier studies examining long-term marriage.
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In developing thesurveyinstrument, a pre-testing procedure was used.
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It also served to test thesurveyinstrumentand methodology and to identify operational problems.
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Thesurveyinstrumentpresents all respondents with the same wasted-vote situation and hence essentially controls for the severity of that situation.
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In the second part we describe thesurveyinstrumentand data and discuss our empirical results.
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Thesurveyinstrumentincluded eighty-two items.
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This breadth of intervention makes thesurveyinstrumentslightly difficult to deal with.
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It was operationalised as the receipt of publicly-funded home-care, and was derived from a series of questions in thesurveyinstrument.
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Thesurveyinstrumentwas carefully translated to have the same meaning in each country.
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Thesurveyinstrumentwas administered in-person, in-home in the second half of 1996.
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Secondly, the use of an epidemiologicalsurveyinstrumentlimits the degree of detail available on panic attacks, as well as the other mental disorders.
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Nearly all relevant segments of the population were included in the sample and great care was taken in preparing thesurveyinstrument.
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The pilot study also served to test thesurveyinstrumentand methodology and to identify operational problems.
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The first step was to compute descriptive statistics for demographic information andsurveyinstrumentoutcomes.
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The third section describes thesurveyinstrumentand response rates.
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All of them received formal training in the use of thesurveyinstrument.
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