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Quantitative data
Quantitative data is numeric information that includes things like personal income, amount of time, or a rating of an opinion on a scale from 1 to 5. Even things that you do not think of as quantitative, like feelings, can be collected using numbers if you create scales to measusre htem. Quantitativve data is used with closed-end questions, where users are given a limited set of possible answers to a question. They are for responses that fall into a relatively narrow range of possible answers. Source
Qualitative data
Qualitative data is a record of thoughts, observations, opinion or words. This data typically comes from asking open-ended questions to which the answers are not limited by a set of choices or a scale. Examples of qualitative data include answers to questions like, how can the program be improved? What did you like best about your experience? Qualitative data is best used to gain answers to questions that produce too many possible answers to list them all or for answers that you would like in the participants's own words. Qualitative data is more time-consuming to analyze than quantitative data. Source
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RSS
RSS or Really Simple Syndication is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel. Wikipedia To subscribe and view the feeds you need a reader like Google Reader.
Readiness
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Resilience
Resilience is either the capacity to revoer from traumatically adverse life events and other types of adversity and achieve eventual restoration or improvement of competent functioning or the capability to withstand chronic stress and to sustain competent functioning despite ongoing stressful and adverse life conditions. Source
Resources
Anyone or anything that can be activated to reduce the likelihood that individuals or communities will begin or continue to abuse alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Resources can be people, funding, programs, services.
Retail Access
Retail access to alcohol measures the availability of alcohol through the exchange of money. Examples include the ability of youth to purchase alcohol from a retailer or the number of retailers within a community that self alcohol.
Risk Factor
Risk factors are characteristics associated with potential substance abuse problems. However, they are not necessarily the cause of the problem. Source See also Protective Factor.
