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. 2011 Jun 29;6(6):e21101. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021101

Table 33. Organizational involvement in data issues by geographic location.

North American Europe Others
My organization or project has a formal established process for managing data during the life of the project1 Agree strongly 164(17.9%) 17(9.2%) 34(22.5%)
Agree somewhat 229(25.1%) 46(24.9%) 43(28.5%)
My organization or project has a formal established process for storing data beyond the life of the project2 Agree strongly 151(16.6%) 16(8.6%) 28(18.7%)
Agree somewhat 201(22.1%) 41(22.0%) 43(28.7%)
My organization or project provides training on best practices for data management3 Agree strongly 48(5.3%) 5(2.7%) 19(12.8%)
Agree somewhat 142(15.6%) 25(13.6%) 27(18.2%)
My organization or project provides the necessary funds to support data management during the life of a research project4 Agree strongly 87(9.5%) 9(4.8%) 17(11.4%)
Agree somewhat 188(20.6%) 36(19.4%) 41(27.5%)
My organization or project provides the necessary funds to support data management beyond the life of the project5 Agree strongly 62(6.8%) 6(3.2%) 16(10.7%)
Agree somewhat 137(15.0%) 18(9.7%) 32(21.3%)
1

χ2 = 21.461, p = .006;

2

χ2 = 21.562, p = .006;

3

χ2 = 25.298, p = .001;

4

χ2 = 17.585, p = .025;

5

χ2 = 23.352, p = .003.