Some institutions keep the results of this type of survey locked away from the public in the "restricted access" portion of institutional data.

FORBES: Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Middle-market companies were among the most represented company type in the survey.

FORBES: Clues in Capital Spending

What most everyone on CNBC and Bloomberg look at are consumer opinions, independent survey type data and extremely inaccurate initial job and income estimates by the U.S. Government.

FORBES: Bad News For 2012: Average P/E Likely Below 10, Big Drop In Stock Prices

Some types of expenditure are estimated by reference to an average level of spending for a particular household type, using data from the Family Expenditure and Food Survey.

BBC: NEWS

Figures from the Scottish Diabetes Survey 2010 showed only 2.5% of Type 1 patients in Scotland used the pumps.

BBC: MSP urges action over insulin pump therapy

So Dr. Mark Daniel DeBoer, an associate professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and his colleagues turned to a large database of 10, 700 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Birth Cohort to investigate the relationship between the type of milk children drank and their body mass index (BMI).

CNN: Drinking skim milk may not lower child obesity risk

Community profiles of smaller population groups of the type so commonly released now by the Census Bureau with data from the American Community Survey were not published from the 1940 Census during days of World War II.

CNN: Why the huge interest in the 1940 Census?