Sentences with phrase «gallup asks»

In fact, worry about global warming is low on a list of 12 environmental problems that Gallup asks about in the Environment surveys.

The question that Gallup asks, «Did you, yourself, happen to attend church or synagogue in the last seven days?»

In Great Britain, for instance, Gallup asks people what they did the previous weekend and presents a list of likely possibilities.

Through a measurement of happiness and well - being called the «Cantril ladder,» Gallup asked nationally representative populations to value their lives on a scale from 0 to 10, with the worst possible life valued at 0 and the best valued at 10.

For the moment, the tech industry is venerated much more than it is vilified; Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates were all among the 15 most admired men last time Gallup asked the question.

When Gallup asked a similar question in 1979 about Vietnamese refugees or «boat people,» nearly 60 percent of Americans (57 %) affirmed that refugees would be welcomed in their community, while 30 % said they would not be.

Back in 1975, Gallup asked how highly people regarded various institutions in American society.

When Gallup asked teens in 2004 to select the top three words that describe how they feel in school from a list of 14 adjectives, «bored» was chosen most often, by half the students.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Gallup asked Americans for their opinion on a federally funded school choice program, and there's plenty of discussion right now in the educational choice community about what role, if any, the federal government should have in an initiative that has been largely driven at the state level for the past quarter - century.

In another study, Gallup asked respondents to rate their managers on specific behaviors related to employee engagement.

The last three times Gallup asked about tax fairness, between 1990 and 1994, property taxes and federal income taxes were virtually tied.

Not exact matches

A recent study by Gallup found that Millennials, more than any other generation, are asking, «Does this organization value my strengths and my contribution?»

In fact, one of the questions from the popular Gallup Q12 engagement survey even asks this of employees about their immediate managers:

New research from Gallup shows that, with only 44 percent of Americans having «a great deal» or «quite a lot» of confidence in religious institutions, Americans» trust in church is at its lowest point since the national research organization started asking the question in 1973.

Gallup didn't ask about covens, séances, and channeling sessions.

Gallup first asked Americans about support for a Mormon presidential candidate in 1967 when Romney's father, George Romney, was running for president.

More quantitatively, the same results were evident in a 1982 Gallup survey that asked people to say how important various things were to their «basic sense of worth as a person.»

Gallup pollsters asked a cross-section of Americans whether they experience life as dull and routine, or as exciting.

It asked the Gallup Organization of Princeton, New Jersey to conduct Phase Two (the national survey).

Gallup pollsters asked 7,948 students at 48 colleges to pick two areas, out of half a dozen, which they thought would be most important to them ten years hence.

The problem with surveys such as Barna and Gallup do is that the question itself creates the illusion of giving an answer, but the question asked is usually very misleading and ignores many important factors.

That's according to Gallup, who have been asking the question since 1977.

Gallup recently asked people across the country how badly they wanted to move out of their current state, and apparently, a lot of people believe the grass is greener across...

Opinions have changed drastically since 1969 when Gallup first asked the question and just 12 percent favored legalization.

That's why Con Agra, the maker of the new frozen Kid Cuisine meals, sponsored an in - home Gallup survey asking parents of 3 - to 11 - year - olds to list their children's top 10 mealtime preferences.

He cites a Gallup poll carried out in August 1944 which asked voters whether they believed politicians in the wartime coalition government were acting mainly in the interests of their country, party or themselves.

In October 1964, Gallup found that the Tories enjoyed a 13 - point lead over Labour when people were asked which would be better at «maintaining prosperity» — yet Labour narrowly regained power.

This is the lowest favorable rating measured for either party since Gallup began asking this question in 1992.

... Support for a third party has fluctuated since October 2003, when Gallup first asked this question.

Ask AFL - CIO President Richard Trumka about the climate for unions on this Labor Day weekend, and he starts with something positive: a new Gallup poll showing public support for unions at its highest point since 2003.

In the past year other national survey projects (EdNext / PEPG, AP / NORC, PDK / Gallup, andAchieve) have also asked questions about the Common Core.

A recent Gallup poll, for example, asked several different age groups how optimistic they were about finding jobs as adults.

The 2010 PDK / Gallup poll reported that, when asked whether they preferred to keep a low - performing school in their community open with the existing teachers and principal and provide comprehensive support, to temporarily close the school and reopen it with a new principal or as a charter school, or to shutter the school, 54 percent chose to leave the school open.

The annual Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup poll on schooling has not asked questions about citizenship since 2000.

When Gallup, NBC and the Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press used the same language to ask Americans about the direction of the nation as a whole while our survey was in the field, less than one - quarter reported that it is on the right track (Q. 5).

In the past year other national survey projects (EdNext / PEPG, AP / NORC, PDK / Gallup, and Achieve) have also asked questions about the Common Core.

That's a reasonable question to ask — and one not covered by the Gallup poll.

For instance, Gallup has reported that, when asked how they would interpret the fact that «large numbers of public schools fail to meet the requirements established by the NCLB law,» just 43 % of respondents said they'd blame the public schools for the outcome.

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The Education Next survey polled nearly 4,100 adults, and has a margin of error of 2 percent; the PDK / Gallup poll asked 1,000 adults by phone and 3,500 adults online.

Terry Moe likes the second question about vouchers asked by the Gallup Organization, which — like the first question, which Moe does not like - shows a clear trend of increasing and then decreasing support for vouchers over the past decade.

Apart from the trends in the PDK / Gallup polls, the Gallup Organization has asked no other series of voucher questions repeatedly during the 1990s.

Moe makes a lengthy comparison of questions he indicates have been asked by the Gallup Organization in other surveys.

This is the first time Gallup has asked superintendents about their support for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, the two main groups of states developing common assessments.

A PDK / Gallup poll released last summer found that, when asked nearly the same question — whether they supported allowing students to choose private schools at public expense — 44 percent of Americans said yes.

The poll, which is conducted annually by Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) in conjunction with Gallup, asked Americans about using stimulus money to save teachers» jobs, investing in early childhood education, and other public education issues.

Too often, they selectively use the results as verification of their preconceived position that educators are lazy, incompetent, or controlled by their union — positions which, incidentally, are not supported by the annual Gallup Poll survey question that asks parents to grade the schools their children attend.

«While the PDK / Gallup poll showed strong support for charters — which is consistent with past poll results — there is a different result based on the way the question is asked.

Part of that may have been the way the question is asked by Gallup.

Since Gallup began asking this question in 1999, U.S. adults generally have been more likely to say they are dissatisfied than satisfied with the state of K - 12 education, with satisfaction levels typically in the 40 % to 50 % range.