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The Projects and Proposals Files, 1946-1947, 1970-1989 (1.5 linear feet) are organized around 21 research projects and grant proposals. The topics include public opinion surveys Cannell conducted while at the Department of Agriculture's Division of Program Studies. Two of these projects focus on public opinion concerning the atom bomb after the tests on Bikini Island and the public view of the international situation after World War II. These papers include survey material with original interviews, interviewer correspondence, and opinion summaries that help capture the public mood of the late 1940s. The majority of the Projects and Proposals series consists of research conducted while Cannell was on the faculty at the University of Michigan. This material relates to interviewing methodology, survey physiology and technology. Several of these projects focus on telephone surveys and how telephone technology affected the quality of the interview process. Research in this area include the relationship between voice quality and survey refusal rates, several projects on health surveys conducted over the telephone, methods for studying and improving telephone interviewing techniques, and research into computer assisted telephone interviewing. The University of Michigan projects also contain material on housing surveys, the accuracy of automobile accident reporting, and many funding proposals, the bulk of which are requests to the National Science Foundation.