Sentence examples for survey rather than from inspiring English sources

It is, in essence, a customer-satisfaction survey rather than an empirical assessment.

(The Georgetown researchers relied on the government's Current Population Survey, rather than on a different government count, Current Employment Statistics.

Unemployment -- which is measured through a separate household survey rather than by tracking company payrolls -- inched up to 5.7percentt from 5.6percentt in February.

Hulu has also been in testing mode on enabling users to choose which ads they watch or to answer a market-research survey rather than view the ads.

The book is revealing and often insightful but ultimately stands as a journalistic survey rather than a gripping story that might deepen our understanding of its central characters, their motivations and the life conflicts they attempt to navigate.

I came to Trevor's fiction through his novels (my preference being for the longer survey rather than the glimpse), first "The Children of Dynmouth" (1976) and the masterly "Other People's Worlds" (1980); then later on "Felicia's Journey" (1994) and "Death in Summer" (1998).

The figures came from nationally representative household surveys rather than from governments, the study said.

Even the recently revised numbers are inferred from two surveys rather than counted directly.

But the rule with polls is to look at the averages of multiple surveys, rather than at individual results.

His oft-cited paper on tipping points is two years old now and was based on literature surveys rather than direct research.

"Modern-day research uses genetic and molecular techniques as well as satellite tags, acoustic methods and aerial surveys rather than grenade-tipped harpoons," the environment minister Peter Garrett, told reporters in Canberra.