Learn English – What do you call a person who takes a survey

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The person who conducts a survey is called a Surveyor.
What do we call the people who take the survey and answer the questions?

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I'm not sure that those who conduct surveys of the questionnaire sort are called surveyors (try pollster instead), but you can call the ones who take the survey respondents.

Respondent noun 2 A person who replies to something, especially one supplying information for a questionnaire or responding to an advertisement. ‘most respondents to our questionnaire considered their practices to be in accordance with current medical guidelines’ - ODO

See also the following entry from the same page:

Respondent adjective 2 [attributive] Replying to something. ‘the respondent firms in the survey’ - ODO

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