SANDEE jointly with ISEC, organized a 3-day Course on Survey Methods for Environmental Economists at Manipal County, Bangalore from 1 -3 Nov. 2004. The purpose of this course was to help researcher's better design household surveys, better construct random samples, and improve survey implementation, all in an effort to improve the quality of the data that is collected. Improved quality data, in turn, will help researchers to better answer the research questions for which the surveys are designed in the first place.