He wrote, "you never feel like you're watching a girl on the empowering cusp of adulthood so much as a selection of attitudes compiled through demographic study".
At the request of The New York Times, Andrew Dugan and Jonathan Rothwell of Gallup compiled estimates of Americans' attitudes by party and education on a wide range of issues, including race, immigration, taxes and values.
Overall satisfaction with the NHS has also dropped sharply in the past year, according to a report based on the British Social Attitudes Survey, compiled by leading health think tanks.
The workers have been spreading the word about the exchange and compiling an informal census on attitudes about guns.
But there is no doubting his immense political courage in compiling and writing it: Chinese official attitudes toward the disasters of Mao's rule continue to be ambivalent.
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.
Compiling it may involve attitude surveys, cost studies, feasibility studies, market surveys, or analyses of the competitive structure of an industry or business.
The origins of this volume go back over 50 years to a collection of social attitude measures compiled by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan (see Robinson & Shaver, 1969).
It is compiled by Timewise, a recruitment organisation that also studies cultural attitudes to the workplace.
For the last two weeks, we've been compiling data on this question, and on people's general attitudes toward feedback, both positive and corrective.
Peter Alderson, managing director of independent finance provider LDF, which compiled the figures, said the rise in British dentists' income reflected changing attitudes.
