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Largest U.K. survey on women
This is the survey published as "The Sexual Marital, and Family Relationships of the
English Women" (1956)
by Eustace Chesser, hence sometimes known as the Chesser Report. Around 6,000 general
practitioners were
approached: they were invited to distribute a self-administered questionnaire to their patients.
1688 doctors
agreed to co-operate, but 190 subsequently refused on seeing the questionnaire. In the event
some 1498 doctors
received between them about 18,000 questionnaires. The eventual report was based on
material derived from
6251 informants of whom 1474 were in the London area. Only 23 per cent of the
questionnaires distributed were
returned and it has been suggested by Schofield in "The Sexual Behaviour of Young
People" that "the sample
was over-represented in the higher educational and income groups."