Sentences with phrase «of respondents favor»

In total, that means 63 % of respondents favor an energy plan that reduces carbon emissions and spurs clean energy development at an unspecified additional cost to themselves — and only 31 % oppose it.

Ironically, results from the poll show that a majority of respondents favor the tax credit to increase wind energy.

This may explain why much smaller percentages of respondents favor rewards other than room stays and airline tickets.

In the first group, 63 % of respondents favor a pay increase for teachers (see Figure 6).

The predictable headline from today's polling data will be that 81 percent of respondents favor a certification exam for teachers.

When the survey asked whether teacher salaries should be increased, 59 percent of respondents favor the idea in 2010 (see Figure 1b), well below the 69 percent support observed in 2008.

A clear majority of respondents favor higher levels of per pupil expenditure and higher teacher salaries.

Meanwhile, a 2012 Gallup Poll showed 70 percent of respondents favor parent trigger laws as a long - term education reform solution.

NEA's poll also indicated concern with how these new assessments will be used in accountability — and 81 percent of their respondents favor a moratorium or grace period on accountability provisions, with the most popular duration being two to five years.

Fifty - five percent of respondents favor the idea, a level not noticeably different from last year.

An overwhelming majority of respondents favor corporate glasnost.

Sixty - percent of respondents favored adding amenities such as fitness center areas and walking / jogging tracks, among other features.

The survey question, which asked residents» thoughts on the two construction proposals, showed that slightly more than 30 percent of respondents favored building the new facilities, while 29 percent were against the projects.

While only 30 percent of parents responded, 80 percent of respondents favored a stricter dress code, he told Education World.

The question has been repeated each year since, with 72 percent of respondents favoring reform through the existing system in the 2001 poll.

In the interview, he disputed the PSBA survey findings, citing several polls, including one by Muhlenberg College, which found that a majority of respondents favored vouchers.

That only 19 % of respondents included it seems low given that that majority of respondents favored property tax increases.

In September, a survey about the new award was conducted, and 92 % of respondents favored the creation of a new award.

According to a National Association of Realtors survey, nearly 90 percent of respondents favored funding improvements in communities over new development in outlying countryside.

Only 29 % of respondents favored the removal of the federal government from mortgage financing when they were informed that this would increase the cost of home loans and eliminate the availability of 30 - year mortgages.

Not exact matches

According to a recent study conducted by Harvard University, which polled young adults between the ages of 18 and 29, not so good: 51 percent of survey respondents said they do not support capitalism, and only 42 percent were in favor of it.

The firm asked respondents whether they agreed with statements such as «The system is biased in favor of elites,» «Hard work is not rewarded,» and «No confidence in current leaders.»

According to the latest FlexJobs survey of over 5,500 professionals, full - time telecommuting continues to be the most popular form of work flexibility, favored by 81 % of respondents over other options like flexible scheduling, partial telecommuting, and freelancing.

According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.

(3) Donigan, in a study of broadcasting by the Mormon Church, found that the broadcast programs were effective in creating favor - able impressions of the church among nonmembers and the broadcasts were one of the factors influential in the respondents» desire to know more about the Mormon Church.

The poll showed that support was highest among liberals and adults under age 30, with more than 60 percent of respondents in those categories favoring legalization.

Almost all (96 %) respondents favored some form of a reminder tool.

Those numbers were fairly consistent across the city and state, with 49 percent of New York City respondents in favor of Cuomo's plan compared to 40 percent of city voters for de Blasio's plan.

In a poll conducted the day after the general election, 49 percent of respondents said they would vote for Keller, 36 percent favored Lewis, and 14 percent were undecided.

By comparison, researchers counted more than two - thirds of respondents who do not own a gun at home are in favor of the SAFE Act.

Compared with three other U.S. cities — Los Angeles, Miami and New York — Denver had the highest percentage of respondents in favor of allowing backyard poultry, 62.5 percent, and the lowest percentage of respondents who believed urban poultry would lead to more human disease, at 7.4 percent.

The most popular option for regulating biotechnology was through international organizations (such as the United Nations and World Health Organization), favored by over a third of respondents.

The popularity of imposing bans on smoking in public places was further revealed in the results of a 2011 Gallop poll, which showed that 59 % of respondents supported bans, a marked shift from 2008, when only 40 % had favored such laws.

This simple adjustment in the scoring criterion removes all bias in favor of consensus: Truthful answers maximize expected score even for respondents who believe that their answer represents a minority view.

More than 66 percent of respondents said they were strongly or somewhat in favor of a ban.

A poll conducted last year by Fandango revealed that between Black Widow, The Vision, Falcon, Hawkeye, War Machine and Scarlet Witch, a whopping 48 percent of respondents were in favor of Johansson's character headlining her own film.

In this survey, respondents selected from the same set of response options, but the «Neither favor nor oppose» choice appears at the end of the list rather than in the middle.

In 2013, 55 percent of respondents not informed of current pay levels favor increases in teacher pay, down from 64 percent taking that position a year ago.

The share of respondents expressing support and opposition do not always add up to 100 because on certain questions some respondents do not take a position either in favor or in opposition.

In 2008, only 27 % of respondents were in favor, while 23 % were opposed.

When posing the question, PDK gives the respondent only a choice of favoring or opposing charters, or saying they «don't know,» while Ednext allows respondents to choose among five categories: strongly support, somewhat support, neither support nor oppose, somewhat oppose, strongly oppose.

◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.

In contrast, among those who think less highly of teacher performance — that is, respondents who rate at least three - quarters of teachers satisfactory or below — about 75 % favor merit pay.

In 2016, when we asked a randomly selected subgroup of our respondents whether teacher salaries should increase, 65 % favored the idea (see Figure 11a).

When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high school, nearly four out of five respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).

The survey also gave respondents the option of staying neutral by saying they neither favor nor oppose the policy.

Survey respondents favor ending tenure by a ratio of 2:1.

In the summer of 2010, public support for merit pay actually decreased by 1 percentage point when respondents were told that the president favored the idea.

After describing a charter school in neutral language, the survey asked respondents if they favor or oppose «the formation of charter schools.»

When respondents were asked whether they favored «students spending more of their time at school receiving instruction independently through or on a computer,» opinion was evenly divided.