Examines issues associated with the design of and statistical inferences from embedded experiments which vary the questionnaire content into sample surveys of broad populations. Provides an example of context effects in attitude surveys, a summary, and conclusions. (RT)

Discusses recent protest concerning the conduct of survey research. (SL)

Discusses the need to provide a set of indices of environmental quality that aggregate and summarize available data, indicates the deficiencies in the data base that could be rectified by alternate data collection techniques, and describes progress toward the goal. (AL)