What is a Survey?

What is a Survey?

“A Survey is defined as a research method used for collecting data from a pre-defined group of respondents to gain information in an organized and systematic manner about characteristics which we want  from some or all units of a population using well-defined concepts, methods and procedures, and sort such information into a useful summary format”.

Surveys have a variety of purposes and can be performed in many ways depending on the methodology chosen and the objectives to be achieved.

The data is usually obtained through the use of standardized procedures whose objective is to ensure that each respondent is able to answer the questions at a level playing field to avoid biased opinions that could influence the outcome of the research or study. A survey involves asking people for information through a questionnaire, which can be printed on  paper, although with the arrival of modern technologies it is more common to distribute questionnaire using digital media such as social sites, emails,URLs etc.

Examples of SURVEY

•        A total of 250 city residents were surveyed about the mosquito bite.

•        64 percent of the people surveyed said that the economy was doing well.

•        The teacher surveyed the room.

•        People were surveying the damage after the storm.

•        Engineers surveyed the property to see what could be built on it

What we do in the survey?

To ask many people “a question or a set of questions in order to collect information about what most people do or think about something”.

To look at and inspect all parts of something to measure and examine an area of land.

An act of studying something in order to make a judgment about it e.g. Surveys of each District.

In Short to:

•          Look over and examine closely.
•         Find out the size, shape, and position of e.g. as an area of land.
•         Gather information from or about make a survey.