The phrase "compile a survey" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you want to gather information from a large group of people in order to draw conclusions from the responses. For example, "We need to compile a survey to measure customer satisfaction with our product line."
To compile a survey of complications during and after Descemet's stripping with automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) in 118 eyes conducted by cornea subspecialists at a single academic center.
In "Long Island Observed," the photographer Kathryn Abbe has sifted through her archives to compile a survey of images from the first half of her career, from the mid-1940's to the mid-1970's.
Behind the glitzy ad campaigns is a health department filled with unsung but highly credentialed data-driven researchers, who each year compile a survey of New Yorkers' habits and attitudes.
These expressions were collected by fieldworkers for the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC) when they were compiling a Survey of English Dialects in the 50s.
Constructions of such devices remained of interest as late as the 6th century ad, when Anthemius of Tralles, best known for his work as architect of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople, compiled a survey of remarkable mirror configurations.
"When you talk about a special pub and what's unique about it, it suddenly seems a bit futile to only protect the physical elements of the building, without thinking of who uses it and for what," says tutor David Knight, who oversaw an army of 435 students compiling a survey of 87 distinctive or typical London pubs – including one-minute Lumière-style films.
You would have done better by compiling a survey of costs and explaining what it takes to bring them down.Rakesh RajaniDar es Salaam, TanzaniaSIR – Pushing for poor countries to open up their telecoms markets doesn't mean that the poor will automatically have access to a mobile network.
We compiled a survey that asked reporters to rank the nations based on three categories: – How easy is it to find information about public companies, including holdings and financial statements?
The World compiled a survey it called "Self-Immolation as Protest", prompted by the Bouazizi story and citing the phenomenon's occurrence in varied locations from India to South Korea, Hungary, Great Britain and Japan.
In the 4th century AD, the Hellenized Egyptian Horapollo compiled a survey of almost two hundred Egyptian hieroglyphs and provided his interpretation of their meanings, although his understanding was limited and he was unaware of the phonetic uses of each hieroglyph.
We then divided these burgers up by region, and compiled a survey which was then taken by a panel of 50 noted writers, journalists, bloggers, and culinary authorities from across the country, asking them to vote for their favorites, limited to the ones that they've tried.
