Sentences with phrase «increasing number of surveys»

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Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

More than half of health - care organizations surveyed by the company say the number of mobile device data breaches had increased over the past 12 months.

The lower response rates have increased costs, because survey companies must contact a larger number of people to get the same number of answers.

THE number of businesses in industrial areas has increased dramatically recently, according to the Industrial Land Use Survey 1997 for Perth, released by the Ministry for Planning.

The Fed's most - recent Survey of Consumer Finances, released in October, showed an increase in the number of U.S. households with credit card debt: 43.9 % in December 2016 compared with 38.1 % in December 2013.

More than 44 percent of survey respondents reported a worsening work ethic among recent graduates, and nearly 38 percent reported an increase in the number of unfocused employees.

In order to increase transparency Coin ATM Radar conducted a survey with a number of bitcoin ATM operators to find out what are current metrics of an average bitcoin ATM business.

An increasing number of urgent care facilities measure wait time, ask for consumer feedback surveys, and even calculate NPS (net promoter score) in an effort to deliver a superior customer experience.

Market formation trends based on survey response data indicate that the industry is evolving with larger platforms emerging and an increasing number of issuers and backers entering the market.

In addition, the survey also estimated that the total number of wallets has increased more than four times to almost 35 million in 2016, from 8.2 million in 2013.

Surveys show that an increasing number of Chinese consumers want to buy electric cars.

The survey also revealed that an increasing number of funds would seek seed and acceleration capital in 2013 as a way to address capital raising shortfalls.

A recent Gallup survey reported only 33 % of US employees are engaged, and increasing that number may yield greater results than a stretch goal.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Like the others, this survey reveals increasing numbers of millennials unaffiliated with church.

CNN: My Take: More doubts about God doesn't mean religion is weakening Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» gives his take on a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which shows a sharp increase in the number of millenials who doubt the existence of God.

The analysis of the CDC's National Immunization Survey (NIS) data found that in 2014, children who were being exclusively breastfed for three months now stands at 46.6 % — a big increase from the 36 % rate in 2009 — but still almost half the number that start out breastfeeding.

A survey by South Holland district council found that despite tensions with local people and concerns about their employers, many of the migrants coming to the area - a number which has increased almost tenfold in the past three years - want to stay.

The Manifesto Club says that a survey it carried out in February showed that the number of orders being used by councils is increasing rapidly.

Although the number of used cars imported in 2014 and 2015 reduced, Nigerians surveyed in the study agreed it was because of the increase in custom tariff rather than availability of locally manufactured cars.

The number of retired public sector workers in New York collecting six - figure pensions is closing in on 4,000, with an 18 percent increase over the year before, according to a recent survey by The Empire Center.

But polls show an increasing number of voters want the popular Cuomo to announce sooner rather than later — the flip side of surveys showing lame - duck Gov. Paterson and the Legislature with historically low approval ratings.

For many of the residents I have spoken to and who have taken the online 2013 Erie County budget survey, their number one request is no tax increase.

The number of retired public sector workers in New York collecting six - figure pensions is closing in on 4,000, with an 18 percent increase over the year before, according to a recent survey by a fiscal watchdog group.

A number of states and the U.S. Geological Survey have issued reports in recent weeks highlighting sharp drops in regional water levels due to increased groundwater pumping.

At some institutions, this translated into more tests; according to the EUA survey, 44 % of the institutions that have redesigned study programs based on study units or modules reported an increase in the number of examinations.

According to repeat surveys in the U.K., the number of people who were aware of e-cigarettes doubled between 2010 and 2012, and the number of users increased four-fold.

A survey carried out by Japan's Environment Agency shows that the number of asbestos fibres in the air has increased to more than four times the national average, as earthquake - damaged houses are pulled down.

The number of people living with cystic fibrosis into adulthood in the UK is expected to increase dramatically — by as much as 80 per cent — by 2025, according to a Europe - wide survey, the UK end of which was led by Queen's University Belfast.

And despite poorer prospects, the numbers of researchers who take multiple postdoctoral positions has not increased — nearly 60 % of former postdocs polled held only one position and 30 % held two, nearly identical to the results from the 2010 survey.

A new survey of North Carolina doctors finds that many are concerned about the increasing number of requests they are receiving to assess their patients» competency to carry concealed weapons.

On average, this is only a 1 - point increase in the number of respondents who agreed compared with the previous survey, carried out in 2010.

From their survey, the researchers found that officials at 37 per cent of the institutions expected the number of non-tenure-track instructors to increase by 2000; 51 per cent predicted that the ranks of the non-tenured would stay the same on their campuses.

Most institutions responding to the survey expect the number of students seeking postgraduate study in England to plateau or even decline as a result of the high undergraduate fees introduced in recent years and increasing global competitiveness.

In the aftermath of the attack, two - thirds of Massachusetts residents surveyed supported increasing the number of video surveillance cameras (66 percent) and the number of police officers at public gatherings (69 percent) in an effort to prevent future attacks.

Reasoning that previous studies may have missed infected bonobo populations, a team led by Beatrice Hahn, MD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted a more extensive survey, increasing both the number and places they sampled wild bonobo populations.

Combining both and previous surveys we ultimately aim to increase the number of characterized exoplanet atmospheres by a factor of five, enabling a statistical investigation into the relationship between clouds / hazes and fundamental properties such as mass, radius, temperature, and metallicity.

So far we know of about 150 lakes, but this number will probably increase when the entire continent has been surveyed.

The Space Telescope Science Institute's (STScI's) 1999 survey of astronomy (discussed in AAS CSWA, 2000) documented substantial growth in the field between 1992 and 1999 — a 33 percent increase in the number of Ph.D. astronomers active in 32 U.S. departments of astronomy and in four observatories with equivalent science facilities.

Americans watch, on average, more than three hours of TV a day, a new survey found, and a number of studies have shown that our screen time increases high - calorie snacking.

UPI - Feb 18 - A recent survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers said 59 % of the nation's top divorce attorneys have seen an increase in the number of cases using evidence taken from dating sites during the past three years.

Surveys conducted years ago show a drastic increase in the number of interracial relationships or marriages, thanks to the constantly changing cultural taboo.

Several surveys conducted in the past years show an increase in the number of mixed - race and interracial relationships and marriages in several countries worldwide.

According to the survey carried out in America, the number of seniors who are still single and looking for new partners has increased rapidly.

The number of students responding to the National Student Survey — used by the Government to help determine fee increases — fell dramatically this year Real - time overview of problems with Tumblr.

Surveys conducted in the past years show a drastic increase in the number of interracial marriages or relationships, thanks to the changing cultural taboo.

The solution is saving time and resources, making data more easily accessible from the automatically archived files, and streamlining reporting of corporate key performance indicators - of which an increasing number are satisfaction based and can be pulled directly from the survey figures.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

A survey conducted by NASUWT, one of the largest teachers» unions in the UK, has discovered a large increase in the number of teachers being targeted for abuse last year via forms of social media.

A survey result showed that e-Learning helped their business to adapt more quickly to change, an increase of 11 % on last year and increasing number of organizations are adapting e-Learning to help their business move forward.