PIP: This article discusses the attempts made by the author's to avoid or minimize the methodological shortcoming of previous North American surveys on woman abuse during this national Canadian survey. The author presents the four strategies used by the researchers and offers two suggestions for future survey work. First, the researchers used a broad definition of abuse that views any intentional physical, sexual, or psychological assault on a female dating partner. Second, multiple measures of abuse, such as the Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS), were used to minimize underreporting and enhance the reliability and validity of social variables. Third, the researchers included in the CTS the context, meaning and motive of dating violence in the postsecondary school courtship. Lastly, the survey tested the hypotheses derived from several theoretical perspectives. The author offers two suggestions that address the diversity of racial and ethnic participation and psychological abuse.