| English | Chinese |
| census survey An official periodic count of a population including such information as sex, age, occupation, etc. | 人口调查 (官方对人口的定期计数，包括的信息有性别、年龄、职业等。) |
| environmental survey satellite | 环境观测卫星 |
| opinion survey The canvassing of a representative sample of a large group of people on some question in order to determine the general opinion of a group | 民意调查 (对一些问题调查一大群人的代表性样本，以确定一个团体的普遍看法。) |
| resources surveys | 资源调查 |
| social survey Data collections that employ both interviewing and sampling to produce quantitative data-sets, amenable to computer-based analysis | 社会调查 (同时采用访谈和抽样而产生的定量数据集的数据集合，适于计算机基础分析。) |
| sociological survey Research on social questions or problems, especially focusing on cultural and environmental factors | 社会调查 (研究社会问题，特别是以文化和环境因素为重点。) |
