Sentences with phrase «cent of respondents thought»

Similarly only 61 per cent of respondents thought that grammar schools achieved the aim of producing children who are «confident and self - assured adults», only slightly more than the 58 per cent who said this about the secondary moderns.

64 per cent of respondents thought David Cameron was «right to refuse to sign up to the EU's migrant - sharing plan».

Sixty - two per cent of respondents thought the government would be able to cut the deficit but expectations of public service improvement were much lower.

Thirty - three per cent of respondents thought the police filming protesters is an invasion of privacy while 18 per cent were put off protesting in the future due to heavy handed policing.

Last month, a survey of 200 Chinese institutional investors by the Economist Intelligence Unit, commissioned by US financial services giant State Street, found that 62 per cent of respondents think the renminbi will surpass the US dollar as the top international reserve currency.

A separate survey of 1,003 parents across Britain also showed that 92 per cent of respondents think schools have a duty to support the wellbeing and mental health of students, while more than half said they want more information about what their child's school is doing to promote this.

In Ontario, 32 per cent of respondents think it's a bad time to buy a house.

Not exact matches

There is an almost universal belief that the world's biggest businesses have cheated and polluted their way to success — with barely ten per cent of respondents in all seven countries surveyed thinking big businesses are «clean».

Alberta is the most entrepreneurial province with 75 per cent of poll respondents in that region saying that they had thought of owning a business.

Almost half of all respondents (47 %) in the TJN survey believe that Canada is more likely to lose jobs if the TPP is ratified, whereas only five per cent think Canada is more likely to gain jobs.

Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, I would bet the people who don't think they needed financing are the same ones that went out and spent a significant chunk of their working capital on a new machine, figuring they would save themselves the interest, and then the following year they were part of the 49 per cent of respondents who said they needed to borrow money for working capital.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

Just 41 per cent of respondents in the Sunday Times poll said they thought he had been a good chancellor, down from 51 per cent a month ago, while 52 per cent think that he has done a bad job.

By a proportion of two - to - one, respondents do not think Mr Livingstone has done a good job at City Hall, with 70 per cent saying he had been divisive and 72 per cent branding him too left - wing.

In 2008, when these questions were asked for the first time in YLT, 26 per cent of 16 - year - olds had experienced serious mental health problems, 13 per cent of respondents had thought about self - harm, whilst 10 per cent had actually done so.

For example, while 83 per cent of «attractive» singles think that their partner should be wealthy, just 63 per cent of respondents who didn't tick the «attractive» box think the same.

The views of secondary students continued to be positive in post residential, with two thirds or more of respondents thinking that as a result of the residential they would make better progress in their subject (71 per cent), had a better understanding of the subject (70 per cent), they were better at problem solving (67 per cent) and would do better in their exams / tests (66 per cent).

However, responses were mixed when it came to grammar's effect on social mobility: 35 per cent held the view that grammars improve social mobility, while 19 per cent thought they damaged social mobility and a further 27 per cent believed they made no difference at all (20 per cent of respondents said they didn't know).

More than two thirds of respondents (70 per cent) agreed that the qualification's non-exam assessment had shortcomings and most (75 per cent) thought changes should be made.

Nearly 90 per cent of respondents said they had no warning that they might not progress and almost 90 per cent thought that their pay progression decision was unfair.

We asked respondents to report if they thought that more than 40 per cent of their students had experienced certain issues or feelings.

As a result, 83.4 per cent of respondents believed that more funding should be allocated to public play facilities, and 81 per cent thought there should be more investment in parks and green spaces.

According to a survey by Durham University of more than 1,500 readers, «Nineteen per cent of those respondents said the voices of fictional characters stayed with them even when they weren't reading, influencing the style and tone of their thoughts — or even speaking to them directly.

«In fact, 12 per cent of respondents this year indicate they do not think they will ever be debt free, and one - third of respondents this year say their debt has increased from last year.»

Eighty - six per cent of respondents indicated that they thought expert witnesses would benefit from more legal training.

Nearly 95 per cent of respondents from jurisdictions containing a jury system thought that, in addition to routine instructions, jurors should receive specific instructions limiting their online communications and use of online social networking sites.

A series of national consumer surveys conducted by Harris Decima and Angus Reid for PropertyGuys.com revealed an underlying and pervasive sentiment: the majority of respondents polled thought that 5 per cent commission was too expensive a cost when selling their property.

In the survey, 85 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement, «I think real estate continues to be one of the better investments a person can make.»

More than half (51 per cent) of all survey respondents say they are very concerned about the environment and think we are in dire need of change.

Half (50 per cent) of respondents think the media exaggerates conditions to make the market seem worse than it is.