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Practices of obtaining informed consent in Lebanon and Qatar: a disconnect between standards and practice
(2013 , Presentation)
With the increasing number of universities in the Arab region, there has been a consequent increase in the number of research projects conducted particularly with human subjects. Despite the need to understand the application ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of
scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic
methodologies or small non-representative ...
Trusted News Sources’ Measures and their Relationships to Social and Public Attitudes: An Analysis of the First Annual Omnibus Survey of Life in Qatar
(
Georgia State Univesrity
, 2013 , Article)
An overwhelming majority (77 percent) of Qatari Nationals reported television as their most
trusted local news source (87 percent for Arab/regional news and 89 percent for international
news), and 80 percent rated the ...
Practical Guidance on Calculating Sampling Error in Election Polls
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American Association for Public Opinion Research
, 2013 , Article)
In election poll results, the proportions favoring candidates and the survey sampling error are usually reported. However, it is hard to assess if the gap between any two candidates is statistically significant or not based ...
Reasons for unit non-response in household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2013 , Poster)
For in-person household surveys, it is fundamental to consider societal customs when choosing appropriate times and interviewer gender. However, even after all these procedures were taken into consideration with an eye to ...
Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the general population of women in Qatar
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BMJ Publishing Group
, 2013 , Article)
Objectives The Arabian Gulf region has limited
epidemiological data related to sexually transmitted
infections. The objective of this study was to estimate
the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection
among general ...
Civic life and democratic citizenship in Qatar: Findings from the First Qatar World Values Survey
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Brill Academic
, 2013 , Article)
The present study examines the Arab nation that has remained least affected by the regional upheaval that has gripped much of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of 2011: the Gulf state of Qatar. Using ...