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Unit-17: Limitations of Survey

3. Regular and Ad-hoc Survey—When any permanent department or institute regularly keeps survey notes
on some subjects then it is called regular survey. for example, regular survey is done by Census
department, reserve Bank etc. of indian Government related to Census, credit facility and property
of banks. on the contrary when survey is done by temporary arrangement for any emergency need or
for the fulfillment of aim then that is called Adhoc Survey.In this survey is done temporarily without
any proper arrangement by appointing any study team socially to fulfill any aim. While making any
scheme, many times such questions are raised in the middle, that it is not possible to give proper and
final form to the scheme without gaining important information about them. In that situation Adhoc
survey proves to be useful.
4. Final and Repetitive Survey—If the subject of study is very less differentiating and much confined
then final conclusions are made related to that by studying it only once. This type of survey is called
Final Survey. But, mostly; since social circumstances, data and conditions are changeable it becomes
necessary to perform surveys repetitively on one subject so that important improvement in results
of previous surveys in reference to changed circumstances and conditions, changes or additions can
be done. With this aim, the repetitive survey work on one subject, this survey is called repetitive
survey. in this type of survey the basis of survey remains the same as it was for the survey done
before it so that both can be compared.
5. Qualitative and Quantitative survey—When survey is done related to any qualitative subject or
incident like public, prejudice, customs, rite, mentality etc. then it is called Qualitative survey. on the
contrary, when the subject of survey is calculative then it is called Quantitative survey.expansion of
education and level of knowledge, caste structure, financial level, and rates of marriage–divorce are
such topics regarding which data can be collected and expressed numerically. therefore, this type of
survey is called Quantitative survey.
6. public and secret survey—Public survey is called that survey whose data cannot be hidden from
the public and after performing complete survey-work publicly its result is published for public
information. surveys related to knowledge expansion, national saving schemes come under this
category. on the contrary there may be some such type of subjects, to publish the data related to them,
may not be favourable to the country and administration. since privacy is adopted in such types of
surveys therefore they are known as secret survey.

Task Which is called Regular and Adhoc survey?

17.3 Merits of Survey Methods

in social research methods are used. survey method is one of them. As compared to other methods,
survey method has its own qualities which we can present in the following way-
1. in survey method researcher comes directly in contact with his research-subject. this happens
because under this, the surveyor has to directly collect data from conditions and persons related to
his subject and for the fulfillment of aim he has to make close contact and hard-grained contact with
them. the success of survey depends on how much researcher is successful in making close contact
with conditions and persons related to his research-subject. in this sense we can not say that neither
survey method is a philosophical method nor based on blank bookish or principle knowledge.
2. In survey method there is a less possibility of leaning towards a specific subject. The reason for this
is that under this method the researcher tries to collect data and figures related to his subject in their
original form so consequently its result will be more subjective instead of pratitik.

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