I have used survey as an input of my research. according to these input data come from non-academic databases, how can I wrote acceptable article in this topic?
You need to worry about the fact that the data should be representative of something, so you need to obtain information on how this set of data was assembled. Was it based on deep interviews, a survey, a questionnaire, or what? How was the input created? If it was an interview, for example, how - and from where - were the participants invited? How trustworthy is the information that you received? And: most importantly, the questions posed should be valid for your purpose! It is not a trivial matter to ask the right questions! :-)
Just like in any (experimental) work, the quality of your primary data determines whether or not you can publish the results in a peer reviewed Journal.
The complication in your case is, that you have probably not had any influence on how the primary data have been collected and that the whole proces had sufficient quality. There might have been (in retrospect) serious errors or gaps in collecting the data.
Thus it might be hard to convince yourself but more importantly your supervisor (if any) and the reviewers, that the quality of the basal date is sufficient to draw conclusions from the primary data and that they warrant a publication.
I'm not sure what you mean by "non-academic databases" but you would need to learn enough about how the data were collected to assess what biases probably occur in them and how severe they are, and whether those biases can be expected to have an impact on the answers to your research questions.
The main objective of the survey must be clear enough to convince peers , survey data must be representative of past and present scenario of the field in which the survey has been conducted. The data must be sufficiently convincing to draw desired conclusions based on the objective of the survey study.
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