noun phrase · academic

survey data

UK/ˈsɜː(r)veɪ ˈdeɪtə/US/ˈsɜːrveɪ ˈdeɪtə/SUR·vey DA·ta

Band 4-5speakingtask2

Information collected from questionnaires or surveys used to analyse people's opinions or behaviour.

Examples

We examined the survey data from 3,000 respondents to identify spending trends.

Before analysis, the team cleaned the survey data to remove incomplete entries.

Survey data suggest that most residents support the new policy.

Band 8 sentence

Survey data from over ten thousand respondents reveal a clear trend towards remote working.

Collocations

  • collect survey data
  • analyse survey data
  • clean survey data

Word family

survey noun / verbdata noun (uncountable)surveyed adjective / verb (past)

Common mistakes

many datasmuch data / a lot of data

survey's datasurvey data

Say it for a higher band

5poll results6survey results7+survey data

Synonyms

survey results

polling data

Easily confused

survey results

The survey results showed a clear majority preferred the new policy.

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