Mike Foster, major projects technical advisor for the Scottish government, describes launching such a project in Scotland as a "significant challenge" due to fact that the country is predominantly rural - a fact that led ScotRail to carry out signal strength surveys to ensure the service would work the length of the trains' journey.
Kelly Aluise, VIA's communications director, said the institute had previously been approached by a civil servant from the nudge team to use a slimmed-down version of its 120- and 240-question "character strengths" survey.
That could be having a conversation, picking up an old interest, doing a strengths survey, visiting the library for research, or sitting in that meditation for five minutes today and journaling what comes up for you.
"The picture of manufacturing strength from survey data is not being captured in the government-collected data on new orders, and this divergence is a puzzle," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.
Despite the high overall brand-power rankings for Internet-based companies, in the category of financial strength, the survey respondents said they were more likely to invest in traditional companies that have Web sites or sell products online than in pure dot-coms.
Ukip can, however, point out that its final tally in 2009 exceeded its strength in surveys at the time – and insist that it will exceed expectations again.
Last week, the Guardian revealed that a single mother of two said she was threatened with having her benefits removed if she didn't complete the "my strengths" character survey.
Yet, a core strength of surveying this particular provider population is that the Partner's Longitudinal Medical Record system allows for both structured and free text input.
As a strength, this study was surveying predefined parents of newborns irrespective of household composition or any other selection factors besides date of birth and residence.
