About ASTMâ¦. Two New Journals. â¢ Advances in Civil Engineering Materials covers topics relating to the. properties and performance of civil engineering materials, such as concrete, asphalt, steel, polymers and polymeric composites, and wood.
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. The term is used mostly in  connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses.
Certain topics are more suited for survey research than others. Surveys are mainly used in social research that has individual people as the unit of analysis. These individual people are also called respondents or a person who provides data for analysis by responding to s survey questionnaire.