anexaminationof people'sopinions,behaviour, etc. made, forexample, byaskingthemquestions:
a survey finds/reveals/showsA survey of 584companieshasfoundthat there is norelationshipbetween a company'ssalesincentiveplanstructureanditsgainorlossinmarketshare.
conduct/carry out/do a surveyWe shouldconducta survey tofindout whatourcustomersreallywant.
But the evidence of surveys suggests that employees frequently do not exercise much choice at all over their health plans.
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Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitativesurveyand qualitative interviews for the study of current rural labour transformations.
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More in-depth, qualitative interviews may be more useful than surveys, especially to examine attitudes toward presumed consent as a term.
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The following text gives asurveyof the qualitative and quantitative patterns in the error corpus.
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Given the qualitative nature of thesurvey, the results were interpreted and put in relation to existing estimates in the literature.
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He surveys the sacred meals against a carefully assembled background of ordinary meal-taking and the general philosophy of food in each region.
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Individual ocelots were photographed as many as 17 times during the cumulative 2-ysurveyperiod, though many were recorded only once.
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Eighty-three of the 91 (91%) surveyed oncologists returned the questionnaire.
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This is a large professional group in primary care and was not adequately represented in the questionnairesurvey.
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A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of allsurveyparticipants.
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Consequently, elderly participants were not recruited as thesurveycontent would have been irrelevant.
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The core of the material is presented in sufficient detail that thesurveymay serve as a text for teaching constrained global optimization.
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After an introductory chapter, theysurveythe concept in a concise, general and convincing way, which could readily be transferred to almost any natural resource.
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For studies such as surveys of farmer practice or multidisciplinary trials involving whole systems, plots are unlikely to be relevant.
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Such examples from the linguistic literature could be multiplied, but asurveyof different types of incoherence may only increase the confusion.
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annual survey
An annual survey started in 1971.
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archaeological survey
They may give a casual visitor an impression of the scope of the factory operation, but the details needed by an archaeological survey have gone.
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brief survey
As has been seen in this brief survey, these categories acknowledge some, but not all, of the wonderful variety of material definitions the specification yields.
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