What do you call the person who completes a survey for another person?
Example:
John Doe goes to some supermarket and buys some food. Marie, who works at the quality assurance department of the supermarket, calls John and asks him a series of questions about the food he's just bought (a survey about the food).
In this case, Marie is filling out the survey in name of John about the food he bought. What should I call Marie?
Best Answer
Marie, the person asking would be best known as
a canvasser
a questioner
possibly an inquirer or enquirer
Note that canvasser, questioner, inquirer (enquirer) have other meanings in different contexts.
For example,
a canvasser can also mean someone campaigning on behalf of a political candidate.
a questioner can mean a person who feels or expresses doubt about something.
an inquirer can mean someone that is involved in investigating incidents, e.g., a parliamentary inquiry into corruption
A good equivalent term to canvasser would be pollster as suggested by Lawrence in the answer to the What do you call a person who takes a survey? question pointed out by 1006a
I agree with Lawrence when he points out that surveyor mentioned by OP in that question is not appropriate
To my knowledge surveyor refers to
Also, in my opinion, (limited experience) surveyee given as an alternative term for John's role in your question is not commonly used.
John would be known as a respondent