Investigation company is a common name for the public to provide civil and commercial investigation services. Survey companies can generally refer to all institutions in different forms of the survey industry. The organizational form of a survey company is not necessarily a limited company, but also a sole proprietorship enterprise or individual industrial and commercial households.
Usually, the most common ones are investigation agencies registered in the industrial and commercial departments in the names of service offices, service departments, consulting departments, service agencies and firms. There are even a few civil investigation companies mainly engaged in marital affairs investigation that are not registered in the administrative department for industry and commerce at all.
There are about 3,700 domestic survey companies with more than 20,000 employees. Among them, less than 10% of the total number of survey companies contains the word "survey" in the business scope or approved name of the survey project.
Survey companies also have various descriptive names, such as business survey company, business survey company, market survey company, economic information survey company, social survey company, folk survey company, folk survey company, opinion survey company, private survey company, private survey company, information survey company, marriage survey company and so on.
Investigation companies can be divided into commercial investigation companies and civil investigation companies according to their main business projects.
A business investigation company refers to an investigation institution engaged in business investigation, mainly including business investigation companies, market investigation companies, anti-counterfeiting investigation companies, intellectual property protection companies, business information consulting companies, insurance fraud investigation companies, anti-commercial fraud companies, economic information investigation companies and public opinion investigation companies. The clients of business investigation companies are industrial and commercial enterprises, government departments, social organizations and other institutions, and only accept business investigation entrustment. Commercial investigation companies usually do not accept the entrustment of individual customers to investigate personal affairs.
Civil investigation companies refer to institutions that provide civil investigation services, mainly including civil investigation companies, social affairs investigation companies, personal information investigation companies and extramarital affairs investigation companies. Civil investigation companies provide individuals with investigation services related to personal affairs.