21.   This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first.

22.   Secondly by providing well thought out and constructive guidelines for documenting data collections and, if possible, documentation software.

23.   Longer term we hope to distribute software to researchers at the beginning of their data collection so that documentation can be produced in standard format and in machine-readable form.

24.   Several methods of data collection are possible and a pilot study will be necessary to check that the operation runs smoothly.

25.   Although several measures regulating data collection are under discussion in Washington and around the country, a coherent legislative agenda is far from gelling.

26.   Among other things, they take advantage of Internet data collection that allows merchants to pitch specific products to customers based on their past shopping behavior.

27.   As a result, a flurry of dollars has been directed toward data collection, much of it economic.

28.   A separate research path diagram guides you through the various stages of background research and data collection, analysis and interpretation, and the presentation of findings.

29.   A trained economist who both supervises data collection and often goes on the road herself, Ms. Balaguer expresses no opinion about the debate over the price index.

30.   But in most industries, data collection has raced ahead of data analysis.