Question

Can you think of examples of surveys in your world today? Think about how toy companies get information about what young people enjoy playing with or how the government finds out about the number of young people in school. What can a historian derive from such surveys?

Answer 1

In today's world surveys are very important to introduce any kind of product in market. For example, a car company first takes the survey to get information about choice of people about features of cars then prepare its car according to peoples choices. Government find out about the young people in school by the age mentioned in documents.
Historian can derive the information about ratio of young and older people at particular period of time.