United States Geological Survey | Ordnance Survey | Coast Survey | British Geological Survey | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders | Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Statistical significance | Geological Survey of Canada | Archaeological Survey of India | survey | Dominion Land Survey | California Geological Survey | South Georgia Survey | Indian Statistical Institute | American Statistical Association | U.S. National Geodetic Survey | Royal Statistical Society | International Statistical Institute | statistical mechanics | Great Trigonometric Survey | Geological Survey of India | Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope | Survey of English Dialects | Journal of the American Statistical Association | Down Survey | Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey | Archaeological Survey of Canada | Survey | Statistical mechanics | Public Land Survey System |
Seven of the surveys were conducted between 2004 to 2012 by the Asia Foundation and one between 2004 to 2009 by a combined effort of the broadcasting companies NBC News, BBC, and ARD.
The National Institute of Information Development of Nicaragua; (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarollo de Nicaragua (INIDE)), is responsible for completing censuses and surveys.
The book is based on a survey, completed in 1980, of 238 journalists randomly selected from America's most influential news organizations: ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.