>> I work for a non-profit which is just about to conduct a telephone
>> survey of rental households in Los Angeles, and we are seeking maps
>> (or mapable information) about telephone numbers. When we call renters
>> (as well as smaller sample of apartment owners), we want to know if
>> they fall in the City of Los Angeles or an adjacent community.
> How would you know if a household is rental, boarder, or homeowner?
> I must point out that although your project is legal in the U.S.,
> these surveys, which I seem to be bombarded with at home, are a
> nuisance. Some households have ill people and such phone calls
> represent an unnecessary disturbance and hardship on such people. It
> certainly was to my family. I had to rip out my mother's phone line --
> and cut off my telephone contact with her -- as a result of such calls.
As a consequence, many people feed invalid information into such surveys. Therefore, the results gathered in this way are extremely suspect.
--scott
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."