Part I: The specification of the reliability required -- 1. The planning of surveys -- 2. The various errors of a survey -- Part II: Some elementary theory for design -- 3. Moments and expected values -- 4. Some variances in random sampling -- 5. Multistage sampling, ratio-estimates, and choice of sampling unit -- 6. Allocation in stratified sampling -- 7. Distinction between enumerative and analytic studies -- 8. Control of the risks in acceptance sampling -- Part III: Some theory for analysis and estimation of precision -- 9. The sample as a basis for action -- 10. Estimation of the precision of a sample -- Part IV: Applications of some of the foregoing theory -- 11. Inventories by sampling -- 12. A population sample for Greece -- Part V: Some further theory for design and analysis -- 13. Detailed study of some binomial and related distributions -- 14. The gamma and beta functions -- 15. Distribution of the variance in samples from a normal universe -- 16. Tests for hypotheses in normal theory -- 17. The distribution of the external and internal variances.