1: Travel Survey Methods in Latin America

Because practically no publications about official travel survey guidelines or reports of experiences and/or results are available in the majority of countries in the region, we had to resort to an Internet-based enquiry. This took the form of a simple request for information sent to a large number of scholars and officials in most of Latin America⁵. In some cases, this produced minimal information, whilst in others it produced a sizeable amount of information, in yet others a link to another person who was known to be knowledgeable in this subject, and so on. At the end (the enquiry lasted for some two months), we obtained fourteen responses from eight countries; in addition, published data from Chile was obviously available. In what follows, we summarise this information in the simplest possible way.