Evolution of the Social Survey in England Since Booth

As conceived and executed by Booth, the social survey was a procedure for transposing impressions regarding squalid living conditions into objective evidence and had three fundamental characteristics: (1) definition and measurement; (2) penetrating description; and (3) analysis of interrelations of conditions and causes. During the last fifty years there has been evident in the many subsequent surveys undertaken in England an improvement under the first and third of these headings, largely owing to a development in statistical technique and a wider grasp of its value for such a purpose. Illustrative of this development are the works of Rowntree and Bowley, and more recently those of Mess, Owen, Jennings, and others. Some recent surveys have been so delimited in scope as scarcely to satisfy the definition of that them. The unsolved problem in the social survey is that of developing reliable methods for measuring intelligence and temperament

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• Reclaiming ‘antique’ data

  Open Access•K Bales•Urban History•1986

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