Who is regarded as the father of scientific social surveys?

Charles Booth is regarded as the father of scientific social surveys for his study of London poverty.

Best is known as a writer on educational research methodology, not survey origination.

Darwin founded the theory of evolution by natural selection, unrelated to social surveys.

Newton laid the foundations of classical mechanics and gravitation in physics.

Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London mapped poverty with systematic data.

His work influenced later poverty studies such as those of Seebohm Rowntree.