The Continuous Measurement Survey (CMS) is a proposed monthly survey whose content will be roughly equivalent to the decennial census long form or sample data. During each calendar year it will include sample housing units and special places from all block groups in the nation. Monthly sample size will be 400,000 for the first three years, then decrease to 250,000 in year four. The data collect...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to study the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among 11,000 inhabitants in Northern Helsinki, and to identify high-risk individuals in the area and direct them to the local primary-health-care-centred CVD-risk-factor prevention programme. METHOD We conducted a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI), a descriptive survey and primary care unit sea...

We present the case of a young police officer suffering from headache without other neurological symptoms caused by isolated eosinophilic meningitis, which resulted from an infection with Toxocara cati, along with a discussion of the differential diagnosis.

This working paper is a surveys of current activities in the development of solutions for virtual private networks over the Internet. The paper is related to the CATI project (WP2T1 and WP2T2) which is founded by the Swiss National Foundation.

Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about sample composition biases and mode-specific measurement error impede their use. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to test effectiveness of web-form chatbot surveys K–12 teachers recruited through social media compare with phone from pre-existing frame. Chatbot yield higher response rates higher-q...

The term liveability is used to evaluate the quality of life in a region based on the surrounding physical environment and different location-based social elements. Having a reliable measurement of general wellbeing of individuals and societies can help the government and non-government organizations planning for better infrastructure. However, a variety of factors can impact the social percept...