In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

The government of Eritrea reportedly is in the process of conducting a geological survey for use by potential investors in the mining sector.

William ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, a survey of the entire population and their lands and property for tax purposes, which reveals that within twenty years of the conquest the English ruling class had been almost entirely dispossessed and replaced by Norman landholders, who also monopolised all senior positions in the government and the Church.

According to a government survey, more than a quarter of unmarried men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

As this survey shows, it is government officials and business representatives to whom journalists " nearly always " turn when covering economic policy.

The total number of formally employed people is decreasing steadily, from about 400, 000 in 1997 to 330, 000 in 2008, according to a government survey.

In academic and government survey research probability sampling is often regarded a standard procedure that must be employed regardless of the cost.

This survey enables the ( government ) to estimate the likelihood of victimization by rape, sexual assault, robbery, assault, theft, household burglary, and motor vehicle theft for the population as a whole as well as for segments of the population such as women, the elderly, members of various racial groups, city dwellers, or other groups.

* 1069 – 1076: with the support of Emperor Shenzong of Song, Chancellor Wang Anshi of the Chinese Song Dynasty introduces the ' New Policies ', including the Baojia system of societal organization and militias, low-cost loans for farmers, taxes instead of corvée labor, government monopolies on tea, salt, and wine, reforming the land survey system, and eliminating the poetry requirement in the imperial examination system to gain bureaucrats of a more practical bent.

* The Mexican government passes a law allowing real estate companies ( controlled by General Porfirio Díaz's political associates ) to survey public and " vacant " lands and to retain one third of the land they survey.

By many accounts, it was decisive in the selection of Canberra as the site in 1908, as was a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener.

These laws provided for the survey and settlement of the lands that the original 13 colonies ceded to the federal government after the American Revolution.

After it was determined that ticks could not survive a desert crossing, the government endorsed James Isdell's scheme and funded a survey to find a stock route that would cross the Great Sandy Desert, the Little Sandy Desert and the Gibson Desert.

The reason why the Aube sailed ahead of the Comte-de-Paris was to ‘ gain time for fear the British might get the start of them ’ Yet the New Zealand Company's survey ship Tory had sailed from Plymouth on 12 May 1839, before Langlois and his associates had made their first approach to the French government, and as early as June the British Government was considering sending Captain William Hobson to act as Lieutenant-Governor over such parts of New Zealand as might be acquired from the Māori.

The Chief Cabinet secretary and other top government officials interpreted the survey to mean that the public wants a pacifist Constitution that renounces war, and may need to be better informed about the details of the revision debate.

Some exploration, survey, economic study, and design work was done, but the government, in the midst of the Chinese Civil War, halted work in 1947.

Moreover, it did nothing to reduce political corruption and inefficiency, one of the most important and oldest problems in the Argentine government ( Argentina's Corruption Perceptions Index for 1999 was 3 out of 10, ranking 71st in a survey of 99 countries ).

:* instructor in sample survey methods in government statistics

Warren soon gained a statewide reputation as a tough, no-nonsense district attorney who fought corruption in government ; a 1931 survey voted listed him as the best district attorney in the country.

Visitors were warned of chaos on the roads and a government survey indicated that half a million people carried by 90, 000 cars might attempt to enter the complex.

* The Dissolution and Westminster Abbey ( 2007 ) Barbara Harvey ; a detailed survey of the dissolution process at Westminster, in the context of overall government policy.

No settler was allowed in the area until the government survey was completed in 1820.

Estimates of deaths due to starvation ranged into the millions, although the government did not allow outside observers to survey the extent of the famine.

George Finlay's 1861 History of Greek Revolution records that by 1831 Kapodistrias's government had become hated, chiefly by the independent Maniates, but also by the Roumeliotes and the rich and influential merchant families of Hydra, Spetses and Psara.

* Socrate Polara ( 1800 – 1860 ) ( Italy ), founded the first dedicated ophthalmology clinic in Sicily in 1829 entirely as a philanthropic endeavor ; later appointed as the first director of the ophthalmology department at the Grand Hospital of Palermo, Sicily ( Italy ) in 1831 after the Sicilian government became convinced of the importance of state support for the specialization.

* 1831 The Coahuila y Tejas government sends a six-pound cannon to Gonzales for protection against Indian raids.

It was set off as a county in 1831, and county government organized in 1859.

File: Warren County Illinois 1831. png | Between 1831 and 1835, Mercer County was temporarily attached to Warren until it could organize its own county government.

In August, 1831, Robinson ".... gave an unequivocal commitment that if hostilities ceased, Aborigines would be protected and have their essential needs met by the government while being able to live and hunt within their own districts.

The village itself was established in 1831 by surveyor ( and future statesman ) Lucius Lyon, who had first visited the area as a surveyor under government contract in 1823.

Starting with the Choctaw, the government began Indian Removal in 1831 to lands west of the Mississippi River.

Since 1831, Lima has been the center of government for Allen County, the first of its three courthouses erected in the city's first year.

The community continued to grow and on April 2, 1831, the citizens formally formed the borough as a political government.

In 1831, the Mexican government gave the settlers a small cannon for protection against Indian attacks.

In 1831, land was granted to Umphries Branch by the Mexican government and settled by the Branch and John Newton Sowell Sr. families in 1833, in the western part of Green DeWitt's colony.

During the period in 1831, J. Francisco Madero petitioned the Mexican government and was later granted complete navigation rights of the Rio Trinidad ( Trinity River ) for a term of 15 years.

Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land from the government.

Sitting Bull ( Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake in Standard Lakota Orthography, also nicknamed Slon-he or " Slow "; c. 1831 – December 15, 1890 ) was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies.

" In the summer of 1831, commissioned by the government, he visited Frankfort and Saxony, and spent some time in Berlin.

From 1833 to 1835, Livingston was minister plenipotentiary to France, charged with procuring the fulfilment by the French government of the treaty negotiated by W. C. Rives in 1831, by which France had bound herself to pay an indemnity of twenty-five millions of francs for French spoliations of American shipping chiefly under the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the United States in turn agreed to pay to France 1, 500, 000 francs in satisfaction of French claims.

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to study the American prison system.

Starting in 1831 at the behest of the Prussian government, Ranke founded and edited the Historisch-Politische Zeitschrift journal.

The struggle over whether the government would be dominated by the emperor or by the parliament was carried over into debates from 1826 to 1831 on the establishment of the governmental and political structure.

In 1831 Cunningham returned to England, but went back to Australia in 1837 as government botanist, resigning in the following year on finding that he was required to grow vegetables for government officials.

Very conscious of the stressful loneliness of command and of the suicide both of Captain Stokes and of his uncle Viscount Castlereagh, who had cut his own throat in 1822 while in government office, he approached Beaufort in August 1831 and asked him to find a suitable gentleman companion for the voyage.