Many, many millions of dollars are spent on scientific research each year. A lot of the money comes from the government (with the military spending a huge chunk), but there are many, many private...
The budget of the US government National Cancer Institute was $5 billion in 2009. http://obf.cancer.gov/financial/attachments/09Factbk.pdf The American Cancer Society raised $848 million in 2005 and...
Here's some information from CASRO (http://www.casro.org/media/Media%20Facts--US%20(and%20Global)%20Survey%20Research%20Industry.pdf) US Survey Research Industry est. at $6.7 billion Global Survey...