The phrase "alternative survey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a different method or approach to conducting a survey or gathering information.
Example: "In our research, we decided to implement an alternative survey to gather more diverse opinions from participants."
Alternatives: "different survey" or "substitute survey".
We suggest an alternative survey method to accurately estimate changes in area of occupancy over time.
The four articles in this volume, as well as other research, point down two paths: (1) continued reliance on RDD, or (2) adoption of alternative survey designs.
This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey designs produce consumption estimates differentially influenced by contrasting types of survey response error.
While previous studies have documented the extent of net error in alternative survey designs, little is known about the relative influence of the different response errors that underpin a survey estimate.
This finding is robust to alternative survey questions such as migration intention and life satisfaction.
It is entirely possible to use alternative survey methods that are perhaps more suitable to a different ecosystem, or perhaps even characterise fauna in a similar manner to the approach described in this paper for floral health indices (native ratio and non-pest ratio), but discussion of this is beyond the scope of this paper.
An alternative, survey-based design is shown to be unbiased.
Since 2009, the National Statistics Office INEE) also uses alternative surveys to obtain information on exits of EU citizens and migrants with permanent residence permits in order to assign an estimated departure date to those exits.
Within the discrete choice modelling literature, there has been growing interest in including reference alternatives within stated choice survey tasks.
In relation to the conventional acquisition model of surveys carried out by client demand (proprietary surveys), the alternative spec survey business model allows the cost and risk of large acquisition projects to be shared among potentially interested O&G companies.
Only those public goods that are expected to change or could be improved by available policy options (core public goods) were used to generate choice alternatives for survey respondents.
