Sentences with phrase «past year surveyed»

Che, Monica, and Ronald are part of a team of students that spent the past year surveying classmates and teachers at their high school as part of a larger initiative.

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Oklahoma has seen a massive spike in earthquakes in the past few years, registering 2-1/2 earthquakes daily of magnitude 3 or greater - a seismicity rate 600 times greater than before 2008, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.

Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

In fact, 41 percent of the on - demand workers we surveyed had faced a personal financial hardship in the past year (such as a job loss, health emergency or unexpected major expense).

Ad - blocking in general, on both the desktop and mobile web, has been growing rapidly over the past couple of years, according to industry surveys.

Recently released preliminary data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners — the Census Bureau's effort to take stock of American companies every five years — show that the fraction of businesses owned by women improved substantially over the past five years.

But in the past few years, observe several academics, there has been a markedly increased interest in personality surveys.

For this first - of - a-kind study, Pew surveyed adults who use prepaid cards at least once a month and found that 59 percent currently have a checking account and 45 percent had used a credit card in the past year.

Even though surveys and government data both indicate that sales and profits at small businesses have improved substantially over the past five - and - a-half years, we haven't seen a rebound in entrepreneurship.

A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that deductibles had gone up 63 % in the past five years, 10 times the rate of inflation.

A recent Forrester study determined that 57 percent of businesses surveyed had no idea what this cost was, with over 30 percent saying they experienced a disaster in the past five years.

Approximately 93 percent of small business owners in one small survey overpaid their taxes over the past dozen years.

According to the survey, 56 percent of millennials believe CEOs have a greater responsibility today than in years past to speak up about social issues, compared to just 28 percent of generation X and baby boomers.

To determine why people are leaving at such an alarming rate, the Tribune surveyed those who have left in the past five years.

While the economic and technological landscape has changed over the past five years, what keeps business owners up at night has largely stayed the same, the survey finds.

Only 38 percent of employees earned a bigger salary at their current job in the past year, Bankrate found after surveying about 1,000 participants in November.

«Over the past year we've conducted insight sessions — via direct interview, surveys,» Peckenschneider says.

In light of Harvey Weinstein and several other sexual harassment allegations, a recent survey by consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. shows that 11 percent of employers say they will not hold an office holiday party this year after holding one in the past.

According to surveys by J.D. Power (published in The Wall Street Journal), United Airlines has come in last or second - to - last over the past four years, when compared to other traditional network carriers.

Only 3 percent expect to have significant layoffs, which has been consistent for the survey results over the past year.

Numerous small business surveys from the past year back this up.

Surveying industry data, Ian Russell, CEO of the Investment Industry Association of Canada estimates 65 boutiques consistently lost money during the past two years.

A recent survey conducted by Right Management, a Philadelphia - based management consulting firm found that of 667 employees polled, 66 percent had not used all of their allotted paid vacation days this past year.

The ranking, in which we evaluated roughly 600 companies that are certified as great workplaces by Great Place to Work, also considered survey responses to questions related to training, profit - sharing, meaningful work and how welcoming organizations are, as well as companies» rate of hiring over the past year.

The survey's other findings suggest big improvements in the atmosphere for startups over the past year.

According to a survey of 250 information technology professionals working in small and medium - sized businesses (SMBs) conducted by Bitdefender and Spiceworks, one in five SMBs was infected with ransomware within the past year; of those, 38 % paid the ransom (an average of $ 2,423).

Just 17 percent of owners surveyed said they had added staff within the past two years.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Sales in the manufacturing sector have improved in the past 12 months, and the companies surveyed reported that strengthening U.S. demand is perking up their view of the next year:

EY found in a survey that 64 % of companies deemed to be such best in class cases have seen 10 to 30 per cent revenue growth over the past three years.

Because the survey followed up a similar one conducted in 2009, we can see how Americans» views of education have changed over the past three years.

A report by Anzalone Research Group published by Fast Food Forward, the campaign behind the fast food strikes in New York, found that of the 500 fast food workers it surveyed in New York in April 2013, 84 % said that their employer had committed at least one form of wage theft in the past year.

As part of the 2013 - 14 survey, 47,764 Canadians between the ages of 15 and 49 were asked about their sexual activity - whether or not they have ever had sex, and if they have had sex in the past year.

In addition, the Glassdoor Employment Confidence Survey monitors four key indicators of employee confidence each quarter for the past six years: job market optimism / re-hire probability, job security sentiment, salary expectations and business outlook optimism.

A Bankrate Financial Security Index survey finds 23 percent of all U.S. adults say they've ramped up retirement saving during the past 12 months — the best showing in six years of polling.

Overall, GEICO was the most affordable insurer in 37 % of the cities we have surveyed in the past year.

65 % of respondents to a BTN survey said their companies have increased attention to TRM in the past three years....

Through a consistent innovation process involving digital conversations, opportunity panel, and a global online survey with 5,500 respondents, the Global Opportunity Report has created a new market universe over the past three years.

The results of the spring Business Outlook Survey reflect signs of a further strengthening of domestic demand following overall subdued activity over the past two years.

Based on a Gallup survey of 15,000 American employees, 43 percent say they spent at least some time working remotely in the past year.

Thirty - eight percent of employees called in sick despite having a clean bill of health in the past year, up from 28 percent the previous year, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

Business investment has been quite restrained over the past couple of years but is about to pick up according to the plans businesses supply to the ABS's Capex Survey.

About 38 percent of millennial savers in the T. Rowe Price survey have employed an advisor in the past five years, including 11 percent who have used robo - advisors.

Data from the BIS survey suggest that the FX derivative market in China has grown rapidly over the past few years, having doubled from 2010 to 2013 and again from 2013 in 2016, although it remains very small, even compared with other emerging economies.

Don's achievements at IPI over the past five years include: the national Investor Education in Your WorkPlace ® program; the DASH for the STASH program, The 2015 Millennials: Debt and Retirement Saving / Investing Survey, and the 2015 When I'm 65 public television documentary and national engagement program.

Most of the Miami business owners surveyed — 81 percent — have taken steps within the past two years to retain employees.

Of those surveyed, 30 % of companies have lost 15 % or more of their millennial employees in the past year.

For example, 43 percent of respondents said they increased the scope of their insurance activities in the past two years, and 53 percent said their insurance activity either remained the same or increased, the survey found.

Following a pick - up in actual price increases over the past year, the June quarter NAB survey reported an increase in inflation expectations in both the short and medium term (Graph 43).