diff --git a/src/Survey.jl b/src/Survey.jl
index e617bbbf..0e2639e3 100644
--- a/src/Survey.jl
+++ b/src/Survey.jl
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ include("example.jl")
 include("svyglm.jl")
 include("svyhist.jl")
 include("svyplot.jl")
+include("dimnames.jl")
 
 export svydesign, svyby, svyglm
 export data, api, apiclus1, apiclus2, apipop, apistrat, apisrs
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ export svymean, svytotal, svyquantile
 export @formula
 export svyhist, sturges, freedman_diaconis
 export svyplot
+export dim, colnames, dimnames
 export
     #families
     Normal,
diff --git a/src/dimnames.jl b/src/dimnames.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d508c878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dimnames.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+"""
+	dim(design)
+Get the dimensions of a survey design.
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> using Survey
+
+julia> data(api);
+
+julia> dstrat = svydesign(data = apistrat, id = :1, strata = :stype, weights = :pw, fpc = :fpc);
+
+julia> dim(dstrat)
+(200, 44)
+```
+"""
+dim(design::svydesign) = size(design.variables)
+
+"""
+	colnames(design)
+Get the column names of a survey design.
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> using Survey
+
+julia> data(api);
+
+julia> dstrat = svydesign(data = apistrat, id = :1, strata = :stype, weights = :pw, fpc = :fpc);
+
+julia> colnames(dstrat)
+44-element Vector{String}:
+ "Column1"
+ "cds"
+ "stype"
+ "name"
+ "sname"
+ "snum"
+ "dname"
+ "dnum"
+ "cname"
+ "cnum"
+ ⋮
+ "emer"
+ "enroll"
+ "api.stu"
+ "pw"
+ "fpc"
+ "probs"
+ "popsize"
+ "sampsize"
+ "strata"
+```
+"""
+colnames(design::svydesign) = names(design.variables)
+
+"""
+	dimnames(design)
+Get the names of the rows and columns of a survey design.
+
+```jldoctest
+julia> using Survey
+
+julia> data(api);
+
+julia> dstrat = svydesign(data = apistrat, id = :1, strata = :stype, weights = :pw, fpc = :fpc);
+
+julia> dimnames(dstrat)
+2-element Vector{Vector{String}}:
+ ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"  …  "191", "192", "193", "194", "195", "196", "197", "198", "199", "200"]
+ ["Column1", "cds", "stype", "name", "sname", "snum", "dname", "dnum", "cname", "cnum"  …  "full", "emer", "enroll", "api.stu", "pw", "fpc", "probs", "popsize", "sampsize", "strata"]
+```
+"""
+dimnames(design::svydesign) = [string.(1:size(design.variables, 1)), names(design.variables)]
diff --git a/test/dimnames.jl b/test/dimnames.jl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..515563b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/dimnames.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+using Survey
+using Test
+
+@testset "dimnames.jl" begin
+	data(api)
+	dstrat = svydesign(data = apistrat, id = :1, strata = :stype, weights = :pw, fpc = :fpc)
+
+	@test dim(dstrat)[1] == 200
+	@test dim(dstrat)[2] == size(dstrat.variables, 2)
+
+	@test length(colnames(dstrat)) == dim(dstrat)[2]
+
+	@test length(dimnames(dstrat)[1]) == parse(Int, last(dimnames(dstrat)[1]))
+	@test dimnames(dstrat)[2] == colnames(dstrat)
+end
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 0cbd9b94..1f07981a 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ end
 
 include("svyglm.jl")
 include("svyhist.jl")
+include("svyplot.jl") 
+include("dimnames.jl")
 include("svyplot.jl")