Persons responsible for 2-year college occupational education should take positive steps to monitor data to measure and insure the development and successful operation of their programs. The purpose of this report is to provide better understanding of techniques involved in conducting surveys. Surveys can establish: student characteristics,…

To evaluate the accuracy of the 1970 census' occupational classification system, a comparison was made between that year's responses to census questions and the replies by the same population group to the 1972 Postcensal Manpower Survey (PMS). Each of these questionnaires relied on a different methodology; in the PMS the respondent classified…