Answer: Different governmental organizations, political parties, manufacturing companies and service providers conduct surveys in order to find out about people’s opinions. Companies and service providers want to learn whether their products and services are meeting the demands of their customers while governmental organizations run the surveys in order to find out how they are performing. Political parties conduct surveys in order to find out how their political manifestos are accepted by the common public. Sometimes, even different media outlets, such as TV and newspapers, conduct surveys on behalf of different companies and service providers.