Sentences with phrase «percent of adults surveyed»

While 60 percent of adults surveyed live in detached, single - family homes, 21 percent of those respondents said they would rather live in an attached home and have greater walkability.

In a survey, fully eighty - eight percent of adults surveyed vastly overestimated the cost of renters insurance, with over half of that number believing it cost over fifty dollars a month!

The poll of 1,961 people — conducted Dec. 8 - 14, 2005 — found that 58 percent of all adults surveyed do not believe that abstinence programs are effective in reducing HIV and AIDS.

Some 41 percent of adults surveyed said they know someone who uses online dating and 29 percent indicated they know someone who has married or entered into a long - term partnership with a person they met online.

Transgender individuals were more likely to identify as male - to - female (0.28 percent of adults surveyed) than female - to - male (0.16 percent), the study found.

Not exact matches

This survey suggests 87 percent of adult Americans check their business emails outside of working hours.

In fact, a recent survey found that 86.5 million Americans — 42 percent of the adult population — had used at least one on - demand service, and some 45 million Americans, roughly 22 percent of the adult population, had reported having worked in the growing on - demand economy.

And that could be a problem for the younger generation: 69 percent of millennials believe that debit cards are as safe or safer than credit cards, according to a recent national survey of 1,000 adults conducted in August by Compare Cards / Lending Tree.

The poll, which surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. adults, found that 52 percent of Americans say men do not treat women equally in the workplace while 61 percent of women say that their male counterparts fail to treat them as equals.

About 20 percent of U.S. adults expect to visit stores this holiday season to check out products, and while still in the store, to comparison shop for — and possibly buy — those products via their phones from a competitor, according to a recent survey by Framingham, Mass. - based marketing intelligence firm IDC.

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.

In a 2015 survey by the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, two out of five adults with deductibles representing 5 percent or more of their incomes reported that they avoided getting care, including preventative tests, because of their deductibles.

In a recent survey of U.S. adults who experience symptoms of stress and burnout, 25 percent said they feel run down and drained of physical and emotional energy.

The index, which surveyed over 20,000 U.S. adults, found that nearly half of survey respondents reported sometimes or always feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent) and younger generations feel much lonelier than older ones.

The reason: Besides new technology that enables people to be connected from every corner of the world, most people — about 53 percent of the 15,000 adults Gallup surveyed — want a job that offers greater work - life balance and better personal well - being.

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.

To that point, 18 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 said they have too much student loan debt alone to consider saving for retirement, a separate survey conducted by Bankrate found.

An October survey by Kronos of 9,126 adults in eight countries, including the United States, found that 73 percent of the respondents saw at least one benefit to using wearable technology in the workplace.

That survey, which polled 2,429 adults aged 18 years old or older, found about 87 percent of Americans don't buy the majority of their gifts during the Thanksgiving weekend.

A recent survey of 1,000 adults by mobile app developer BiTe indicated 45 percent of people think Google Glass will be «too socially awkward or too irritating» to don, 38 percent of folks wouldn't buy the glasses, even if they could afford it and 44 percent don't think there is anything appealing about the features offered on Google Glass.

What's more, a recent survey from TIAA found that just 11 percent of parents are likely to start a convo about money with their adult kids.

Considering nearly 50 percent of the 7,200 adults surveyed in a recent Gallup study left a job «to get away from their manager,» it's time to reevaluate the employee - employer relationship.

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

The survey of 1,520 adult Americans found just 20 percent feel overloaded by information.

That compares with 27 percent of all others ages 18 or older, according to a Bankrate.com survey of 1,000 adults conducted earlier this month.

A survey conducted last year of 2,078 adults by The Workplace Group, a recruitment firm in Florham Park, New Jersey, along with Lyon College and Rutgers University, found that 34 percent of those ages 53 and older defined themselves as being in the early or mid-career stage.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking rates have fallen from 21 percent of the adult population in 2005 to 15 percent in 2015, when the agency conducted its latest survey.

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.

Eighty - four percent of millennials — and 71 percent of all adults — are interested in sustainable investing, according to a 2017 Morgan Stanley Survey.

Roughly One in Four Americans is Online «Constantly» More than a quarter of U.S. adults consider themselves online «almost constantly» according to survey data recently released by the Pew Research Center, a figure that jumps to nearly 39 percent for younger people in the 18 - to -29-year-old age group, and Kurt Wagner looks closely at some of the survey's fascinating statistics.

But more than 20 percent of US adults told Pew researchers in a 2015 survey that they also rely heavily on Facebook and other social media platforms, a number that's probably only grown in the years since.

According to a survey of 3,760 U.S. adults by the Pew Research Center, 35 percent of people 18 to 29 years old say social media is the most helpful source of information on the 2016 presidential election.

A 2016 GOBankingRates survey of 4,500 adults in all age groups found one in three (33 percent) Americans has zero saved for retirement.

Millennials said the biggest barriers to progress for young adults 18 - 22 were higher education costs (46 percent), slow wage growth (40 percent) and lack of job prospects (39 percent), the survey found.

About 28 percent of young adults ages 21 to 35 say student debt has forced them to delay major life decisions such as starting a family, according to a Study.com survey.

A recent online survey of more than 2,000 young adults in the United States conducted by the Harris Poll on behalf of blockchain venture - capital firm Blockchain Capital found that 19 percent of Millennials (18 - 34 years old) would prefer to own bitcoin over gold.

In Bankrate's latest survey, 45 percent of American adults said they or their immediate family had had a major unexpected expense in the past 12 months.

A November 2012 survey of adults in the United States found 37 percent affirm a belief that homosexual behavior is a sin - a statistically significant change from a September 2011 LifeWay Research survey asking the same question.

Some 56 percent of all teens in the survey «believe America's best days are ahead,» only a four percent increase compared to adults in another, previous AP - NORC poll.

When U.S. adults in the survey were asked if they agree that Christians have a responsibility «to work for justice for the poor» — a phrase often identified with liberal Christianity — 90 percent of Pentecostals and 85 percent of charismatic believers agreed.

More generally, only 40 percent of all the religious respondents to Evans» surveys oppose prenatal testing for the purpose of avoiding bearing children who could experience adult - onset diseases.

A national survey conducted in 1964 - 65 showed that 68 percent of adults drink.

The survey, which polled 1,000 working adults, revealed that 26 percent had taken a sick day due to a mental health problem; more than half (58 percent) revealed they weren't comfortable telling their boss if they were diagnosed with a mental health problem, and only 20 percent believed that their employer would be supportive of their employees battling a mental health issue.

A 2015 study from the Water Quality Association (WQA), conducted by an independent market research firm, surveyed 1,200 adults and found that 56 percent of respondents — 4 percent more than in 2013 — were «concerned» or «very concerned» about the quality of water in their homes.

In fact, the survey found that 40 percent of adults say they have had disagreements within their household over whether a food product should be kept or thrown away.

Though depression is less common among adolescents than adults, 11 percent of adolescents are diagnosed with a depressive disorder by age 18, according to the adolescent supplement of the National Comorbidity Survey, which collected data on teens in two sample groups between 2001 and 2004.

More than 40 percent of Americans support a ban on youth playing contact football up until entering high school, according to a survey of 1,003 adults by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute Powered by Trib Total Media.

«A study that analyzed data from a national public opinion survey conducted in 2001 found that only 43 percent of U.S. adults believed that women should have the right to breastfeed in public places.

The bipartisan poll, which was commissioned by Rock the Vote, found that young adults are paying close attention to the election — about 77 percent of those surveyed said they were either very likely or somewhat likely to vote.

In a survey released by Rasmussen Reports last week, over 50 percent of adults blamed violent video games and movies...