What is a survey?

What is a survey?
A survey is any activity that collects information in an Scientific and methodical
manner about characteristics of subject from some or all units of a population using well-defined concepts, methods and procedures, and presents such information into a useful form. A survey usually begins with the need for information or knowledge where no data – or insufficient data – exist. Sometimes this need arises for framing a policy and sometimes it results from a request from any institution or agency which could be another government agency or department, or a private organization. Typically, the statistical agency or the client wishes to study the characteristics of a population, build a database for analytical purposes or test a hypothesis.

Steps of a Survey:

The steps of a survey are:
- Objectives;
- Sample design;
- determination of the sample size;
- Interview Schedule /questionnaire Preparation and testing;
- Data collection;
- Classification and coding; Tabulation
- Editing and imputation;
- Estimation;
- Statistical Analysis;
-  Report writing

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