Sentences with phrase «percent said their friends»

Data from Mothers Against Drunk Driving and Chrysler found that nearly 75 percent of teens felt pressured to use alcohol while another 49 percent said their friends encouraged them to try drugs during prom.

Not exact matches

According to the Wells Fargo / Gallup study, women business owners said their top three sources of initial funding for their business are cash or savings (85 percent), personal credit cards (37 percent) and financial gifts or support from family or friends (29 percent).

Since Zuckerberg is saying that Facebook would like most updates to come from friends, we estimate that publishers will on average see an 80 percent reduction in page reach, clicks, and engagement.

Say 80 percent of revenue historically comes from initial wedding packages sold to couples, 10 percent from additional sales after the wedding to the couple, and 10 percent from post-wedding sales to friends, family, etc..

In fact, according to Nielsen, 92 percent of consumers around the world say they trust earned media, such as recommendations from friends and family, above all other forms of advertising.

According to a Nielsen survey spanning more than 100 countries, 92 percent of people surveyed said they trust the recommendation of a family member or friend over any other marketing channel.

According to Nielsen, 83 percent of global respondents say they completely or somewhat trust the recommendations of friends and family.

Glassdoor.com, a website on which users can anonymously review their employers, offers a good barometer for employee sentiment at Zynga: Only 49 percent of reviewers say they would recommend working at Zynga to their friends, compared with 93 percent at Facebook and 84 percent at LinkedIn.

Seventy - one percent said that they derive a sense of self - worth from family and close friends as opposed to their jobs.

Research from Nielsen says while just 15 percent of people trust what a brand says, 90 percent will trust the word of a friend, peer or family member.

In a Jack Morton survey, 84 percent of women said they'd bring family or friends to a live marketing experience, and 75 percent said they'd tell others about the experience.

Seventy - six percent said they believe they are likely to live with their significant other when purchasing a home versus living alone (15 percent) or residing with a friend (8 percent).

About 26 percent would reduce spending on other things, and 28 percent said they would either borrow from family or friends or use credit cards.

And most CEOs didn't look too far when it came to starting their companies: 35 percent of survey respondents said partners and co-founders had been work colleagues, followed by 33 percent who said they started up with a close friend.

75 percent of employees who have a best friend at work say they feel they're able to take anything on, compared to 58 percent of those who don't have a best friend at work.

When asked «Do you follow / friend any brands or companies on social networks» 51 percent said they follow on Twitter, compared to just 16 percent on other social networks.

Fifty - three percent of millennials say they make purchases they can't afford to keep up with their friends no more than once a year, while one - quarter of respondents say they never make FOMO purchases.

Least popular was e-mail, which as Sandberg said, is used by only 11 percent of teens every day to reach friends.

In a 2015 poll, LifeWay Research found that 70 percent of evangelicals without gay or lesbian friends believe that «sex between people of the same gender is sinful, regardless of its legality,» while 62 percent of evangelicals with such friends say likewise.

You write that 80 percent of pastors (and 84 percent of their spouses) are discouraged in their ministry roles, that 40 percent say they have seriously considered leaving the pastorate in the past three months, and that 70 percent say they don't have a single close friend.

On the question of whether same - sex marriage should be legal, only 20 percent of evangelicals who say they have no gay or lesbian friends agree.

Even if there is a higher power, I say with 100 percent certainty that nobody here on earth has any concept of what this being might be like... sorry friend.

«All these unhappy women, and I am talking about 100 percent of my friends waiting too long and regretting it, and I'm not saying that you have to have babies and you have to stay in the kitchen and you can't have a life.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

About 40 percent of people making more than $ 100,000 say none of their five closest friends make less than $ 50,000.

Among black people, 36 percent reported that their five closest friends are black and 31 percent say none of their five closest friends are white.

Republican men were the most insulated, with only 5 percent answering that none of their friends were Republicans, and 30 percent saying all five of their closest friends were Republicans.

Democratic men and women both answered similarly with 7 percent of both saying none of their closest friends are Democrats and 31 percent of men and 35 percent of women saying all five of their closest friends were Democrats.

About 30 percent of those making less than $ 50,000 say that all of their closest friends are at about the same income level.

Forty - eight percent of the white people surveyed say all of their five closest friends are white.

Conversely, when asked how many friends were Democrats, Republican men and women said none of their closest friends were at 32 and 29 percent, respectively.

Although the company has had its «Friends of Tom» rewards program in place for eight years, Abes says participation in the program has grown 32 percent over the past three years.

Friends of theirs had gotten divorced and when she asked the wife what percentage of the time they would say they were happy, the wife responded 20 percent, then revised it to 2 percent and later bumped up to 3 percent (probably because wives are generally unhappier than husbands although it's unclear if the couple is hetero or same - sex).

In comparison, 22 percent say that friends have the strongest influence on these critical decisions.

Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, an organization critical of Kelly but friendly to Netsch, says only 12 percent of the people who use the parks take advantage of its organized activities.

Under the plan, the district would sell most of Northerly Island to the city, which would cover more than 90 percent of that cost with federal and state funds, to generate a district windfall of up to $ 100 million, said Steve Whitney, president of Friends of Meigs.

Seventy - eight percent said they have less time to hang out with their friends now.

Whether or not they watch it, forty - five percent of teens surveyed said their friends do.

In fact, of the 36 percent of Queens 50 + voters who have provided care to an adult relative, friend or spouse who is ill, frail, elderly or has a disability in the past five years, 58 percent said caregiving put a strain on the quality of life for themselves and their family, including financial hardship, emotional stress and stress at work.

Eighteen percent of New Yorkers say that they, a family member or a close friend has pursued treatment for opioid abuse.

«I'd say about 85 percent of my friends play.»

«Fighting for the 99 percent is also a question of fighting for good public education and fighting against a local bully and the best friend of Donald Trump in Western New York,» Lipsitz said.

The department has seen a marked increase in the number of people turning to shelters after living with family and friends, from 40 percent five years ago to more than 60 percent in recent times, Diamond said.

If 25 percent of Republicans had simply brought a friend to vote, said Moss, he would be the lieutenant governor.

The Siena College poll said 65 percent of likely voters believe state lawmakers «do what is best for themselves and their friends» and only 28 percent say «the state legislature is honest, hard - working and do what's best for constituents.»

Twenty - four percent say they have an addicted relative, close friend, or that they themselves are addicted to opioids.

«We found it can soar to 81 percent if additional features are present, like a family history of psychotic illness, odd or weird thoughts, and severe social deficits, such as having no friends or withdrawing from contact with others,» he says.

An additional 14 percent of parents who reported no household firearms said their children regularly visited the homes of relatives and friends who owned guns.

The majority of parents (87 percent) said that before using an electronic tracking device, concerns about wandering affected decisions whether to let their child spend time with friends or family in their absence, for example.

As said by a good friend of mine, Joseph Giove, who is also a Clinical Hypnotist, «when you engage the mighty subconscious, which is at least ten million times more powerful than your conscious mind, you engage 99.9 + percent of your capacity.»