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{{Short description|United Kingdom social research organisation}}
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'''Mass-Observation''' is a [[United Kingdom]] [[social research]] project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the [[University of Sussex]].

Mass-Observation originally aimed to record everyday life in Britain through a panel of around 500 untrained volunteer observers who either maintained diaries or replied to open-ended [[questionnaires]] (known as directives).  The organisation also paid investigators to anonymously record people's [[conversation]] and [[behaviour]] at work, on the street and at various public occasions, including public meetings and [[sport]]ing and [[religion|religious]] events.