Survey design is one of the most commonly used in social studies. Researchers seek information from individuals, including their attitudes, opinions, and behaviors. Surveys are popular with students studying agricultural economics. Classified according to time, two main types of surveys are recognized: cross-sectional and longitudinal. The cross-sectional surveys have four variants: attitude, practice and challenge surveys, baseline and end-line surveys, comparative surveys, and community surveys. On the other hand, the longitudinal category has three variants, namely trend, cohort, and panel. Animal epidemiological research uses many variants of cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys. These include case–control studies, ecological surveys, and other descriptive designs in livestock health studies. Case–control, retrospective, and cohort-prospective studies are the most widely used in livestock health research. Surveys are administered through self-completed questionnaires or interview-completed questionnaires. Interviewer-completed surveys use face-to-face interviews, paper, telephonic, and internet surveys, while self-completed surveys use postal and online platforms. The surveys involve three main phases: planning, mid, and final. The planning phase draws the tools for data collection and logistics organization. The second phase involves piloting, while the third phase is data collection and reporting. This final phase will have participants recruited, data collected, analyzed, and reported.