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Recreation (R) surveys are classified by method of data collection: from persons passing a transportation point (travel studies), from persons engaging in an activity (on-site surveys), from persons at their homes (household surveys). Variables included in these studies are identified. The NATIONAL SUR- VEY OF FISHING AND HUNTING has been used to formulate legislation & programs. The US Outdoor R Resources Review Commission, which published 27 reports on US R, used participation rates from the NATIONAL RECREATION SURVEY & econ studies to project future US R demand to 1976 & 2000. 'On-site' surveys sponsored by ORRRC & others have assessed programs & user satisfaction in parks & wilderness areas. A multivariate analysis reported by Mueller & Gurin shows outdoor R participation signif'ly associated with sex, age, income, occup, fam cycle, size of place of residence, race, region, & educ, accounting for 30% of variance in participation score. Unexplained variance suggests examination of motivational variables in relation to participation in particular activities. Outdoor activity days are estimated to increase from 28 in 1960 (per person, 12 yrs old & over), to 38 in 2000. Results of R surveys apply in land use planning, econ studies of investment, legislative policy making, & program & facility planning. The function of leisure in work, motivation, personality development, & the process of group formation & integration requires further study. A. L. Ferriss.

AbstractCourt cites 1952 study in upholding Nashville annexation of 82,000 persons, 43 square miles.

Most of the findings of sample surveys are primarily of psychol'al or sociol'al interest. Their utility in the explanation of pol'al processes has been limited. The characteristics of the survey instrument have caused it to be focused on microscopic pol'al phenomena, on the pop of individual voters rather than on the pop of elections. The AMERICAN VOTER by Angus Campet al, reports encouraging steps to adapt survey analysis to the study of pol'ay relevant problems. To construct a picture of the electorate as a whole-based on data from surveys about the 1948, 1952, 1954, 1956 & 1958 elections - the responses to open-ended questions were coded into categories of att's (a procedure implying a diff conception of electoral behavior than that of analysts working in terms of `structures'). Tentative observations are made about the role of the electorate in the relations of governors & governed; a preliminary typology of elections is drawn. Other analyses grapple with the role of the sense of class, the rule of ideology, the weight of variables associated with local conditions. IPSA.

Contents: Introduction, by Alain Girard; Interviewer training and supervision in a survey of Laos, by Raymond Fink; Questionnaires in Asia, by Gabriele Wülker; Interviewers and interviewing in India, by Elmo C. Wilson and Lincoln Armstrong; Research on opinions and attitudes in West Africa, by Michel Hoffmann; The courtesy bias in South-East Asian surveys, by Emily L. Jones; Development of public opinion surveys in Korea, by Yunho Park; Public opinion surveys in Poland, by Andrzej Sicinski.