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.