S U R V E Y

1. DEFINITION OF SURVEY

Survey is a systematic method for gathering information from (a sample of) entities for the purposes of constructing quantitative descriptors of the attributes of the larger population of which the entities are members. The word “systematic” is deliberate and meaningfully distinguishes surveys from other ways of gathering information. The phrase appears in the definition because sometimes surveys attempt to measure everyone in a population and sometimes just a sample. According to Masri Singarimbun (1995:3), survey is a research which is taking sample from a population by using questioner as an instrument in collecting data.