She would not estimate the average age of its members, but she noted that a membership survey was under way.

The state also plans to conduct membership surveys and publish a consumer guide to H.M.O.'s.

Another Democrat, Pete Stark of California, said figures from recent membership surveys displayed a selfish world view.

In a 1998 membership survey by the National Association of Homebuilders, 72 percent of respondents said that the new toilets were a problem.

"But based on our reports and a membership survey we'll run about 70 percent," he said.

According to a membership survey, 72 percent favored an overhaul of the party, staring with a new name, at a nationwide congress in January.

In June, the committee that represents the university's nonacademic personnel conducted a membership survey on the issue and found that 1,000 of the 1,231 polled want the cross retained.

Through membership surveys, DPC members can help set the organization's advocacy and education priorities.

If its membership surveys are to be believed, the transportation sector alone would have no problem devouring the bulk of an annual increase of $20 billion in spending.

A membership survey in 1965 revealed that Adas Israel had 1,132 families with 478 children enrolled in its school.