By contrast, the social survey was developed as a more generic method.

As the above introductory remarks suggest, the experience most people have of social surveys is through the interview.

If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930, the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not.

The social survey was, in fact, only a minor player in the research game.

Increasing use is being made of the telephone for interviewing the general public in market research and social surveys.

Other development projects will be initiated after social surveys and infrastructure assessment.

Each trio had a half-hour to work through a boring social survey.

These are all significant advantages when compared with the evidence of most social surveys.

This was stressed in all the social surveys of the period.

Figure 1 lists the stages of a social survey.