Summarize (as appropriate for your study) research design issues, to include: definitions or operationalization of key variables, identification of study population, sampling procedures to be employed, justification of case studies selected, and data collection methods planned or secondary data to be utilized.  Summarize (as appropriate for your study) the analytic methods to be employed, including software packages to be employed, modeling procedures to be used, or statistical or other analysis procedures to be used for individual hypothesis tests. Note that any number of methods may be employed including qualitative methodology, comparative analysis, historical analysis or survey research.