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Proxy reporting in education surveys: factors influencing accurate reporting in the 2012 Qatar Education Study
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2017 , Article)
Proxy reporting is a common practice during survey data collection to increase response rates while reducing fieldwork costs, and agreement between proxies and self-reports is critical to make reliable and valid inferences. ...
A Path Analysis of Student Interest in STEM, with Specific Reference to Qatari Students
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Modestum
, 2017 , Article)
ABSTRACT
This study sought to explore the factors that help predict students’ interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Qatar. Drawing on recent work in the field, the present paper examines ...
The Practice of Research Ethics in Lebanon and Qatar: Perspectives of Researchers on Informed Consent
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
Informed consent requirements for conducting research with human participants are set by institutional review boards (IRBs) following established guidelines. Despite this, researchers continue to face challenges in seeking ...
The Effects of Religiosity and Social Capital on Civic Engagement in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2017 , Article)
Few studies have examined the role of religiosity and social capital on civic engagement in the context of a Muslim country. In this paper, we explore the impact of religiosity and social capital on charitable donations ...
A Century of Saudi-Qatari Food Insecurity: Paradigmatic Shifts in the Geopolitics, Economics and Sustainability of Gulf States Animal Agriculture
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Geo Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
In their quest for food security, the drylands of the Gulf Cooperation Council states have experienced more radical transformation over the past half century than over the previous millennium. This paper explores modern ...
Exaggerating good governance: Regime type and score inflation among executive survey informants
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Wiley
, 2017 , Article)
Researchers and policymakers often rely on executive surveys to understand and promote good governance. In doing so, they assume that the evaluations provided by these well‐informed respondents are not systematically ...
Attracting and retaining expatriates in Qatar during an era of uncertainty: Would you stay or would you go?
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Wiley
, 2017 , Article)
How do foreign workers navigate competing pressures when deciding to remain in a place or leave for a new destination? Here, we explore migration decision‐making across a diverse set of migrant nationalities using an ...
Assessing Accuracy and Coverage of Housing Units Sampling Frame using the Post-Frame Update Survey (PFS) Method
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Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies
, 2017 , Article)
Survey research using nationally representative samples is growing substantially in the rapidly
developing countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). However, in such countries the population and their
demographic ...
Qatar Against The Blockade
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Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI)
, 2017 , Article)
INTRODUCTION:
The unjust and surprising Qatar blockade may be considered the most
important event in the country's contemporary history, given its essential
political, economic and social impacts on Qatar’s present and ...
Determinants of Banks’ Profitability: Panel Data from Qatar
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Scientific Research Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose : The aim of this paper is to investigate the main determinants of
banks’ profitability and answer the question “what is the effect of liquidity and
risk variables on the explained variation of banks’ performance ...