Abstract
Government Social Survey is a social research unit created to provide Government departments with information about the habits, opinions and conditions of the people. It was set up in 1941 in response to specific administrative needs : to obtain information, for example, about war-time shortages of consumer goods and their distribution, and about the effectiveness of the information campaign of the Ministry of Food. The Survey was from the beginning controlled by the Home Intelligence Division of the Ministry of Information ; and, at the moment, it is a division of the Central Office of Information. So far no final decision has been made about how the Survey is to be fitted into the Government apparatus.
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GOLDSMITH, M. The Government Social Survey. Nature 161, 573–574 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161573a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161573a0
