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Input from
respondents
around the world – more than 9,600 this year – influences the report’s conclusions.
In a public-opinion poll (link in Japanese) conducted by the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, 73% of
respondents
agreed that the government’s decision was “appropriate.”
But when
respondents
were told how many foreigners actually reside in the US before being asked that question, their views changed significantly: just 21% replied that there were too many.
In the United Kingdom, 54% of
respondents
said that there were too many immigrants; that number fell to 31% among those who were given the facts about foreigners.
A 2014 Pew study found that while only 25% of
respondents
were satisfied with the direction of national policy, 60% were satisfied with governance in their own communities.
According to a July BBC/ComRes poll, 66% of
respondents
considered “maintaining access to the single market” to be more important than restricting freedom of movement.
In an ICM poll the same month, only 10% of
respondents
said they would prioritize ending free movement over maintaining access to the single market, while 30% viewed the two as equally important and 38% considered maintaining full access to the single market the priority.
Five of six
respondents
who served in the military since the 1990’s were subject to abuse as soldiers.
European
respondents
are more pessimistic about mobility: unlike Americans, they overestimate the odds of remaining in poverty.
For example, French, Italian, and British
respondents
said, respectively, that 35%, 34%, and 38% of low-income children will remain poor, when the reality is that 29%, 27%, and 31% will.
In these states,
respondents
believe that mobility is more than two times greater than it is.
By contrast,
respondents
underestimate social mobility in northern states – including Vermont, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington – where it is higher.
In a recent survey of 384 firms in the eurozone by the management consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers, two-thirds of the
respondents
said that they had reshored some activities during the past year, and 50% plan to do so in the next.
According to the report – which surveyed some 70,000 Internet users in 36 countries – 29% of
respondents
said they were avoiding news altogether.
The polls, involving nearly 15,000 respondents, were conducted in 16 countries, representing 58% of the world’s population: Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, the Palestinian Territories, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States.
On average, 90% of those asked said that equal treatment for people of different races or ethnic origins is important, and in no country were more than 13% of
respondents
prepared to say that equal treatment is not important.
Four out of ten employers said that they cannot find workers to fill entry-level positions in their firms, with more than one-third of
respondents
saying that their businesses are suffering from a lack of appropriate skills in the labor market.
A survey in July 2009 found that 64% of
respondents
in seven Arab countries believe that Turkey’s EU membership prospects makes Turkey an attractive partner for reform in the Arab world, underscoring the direct link between Turkey’s foreign-policy potential and its EU accession course.
In Portugal, when asked if first-generation immigrants are well integrated, 79% of
respondents
said yes, as did 63% of those surveyed in Spain.
In fact, many
respondents
in Britain said the stigma of receiving free food was so severe that “fear” and “embarrassment” were common emotions.
The response rate was 38%, and no reason was repeated by more than three respondents, except the stock-market drop itself.
While
respondents
were generally supportive of procedures for the treatment of life-threatening illnesses, many were adamant that every available option should be exhausted before genome editing was tried.
A whopping 91% of the 16,000
respondents
said that they would favor changes to the status quo, even if it required some sacrifice.
Befitting the continent’s strong macro trends, the survey found a high degree of optimism among urban African consumers: 84% of
respondents
expect their households to be better off in two years.
And half of all
respondents
claim to make daily sacrifices to save for major expenditures.
A recent transatlantic survey by the German Marshall Fund found that, while majorities in all countries were worried about illegal immigration, anxiety about legal immigration was low – with only 26% of European
respondents
expressing concern, and just 18% doing so in the United States.
In the same German Marshall Fund survey, British
respondents
estimated that 31.8% of the United Kingdom’s population was foreign born; the true figure is 11.3%.
Even so, roughly 70% of
respondents
in a February poll said that they approved of Putin’s performance.
Those who participated in both waves of voucher privatization (79% of
respondents
in the survey) firmly declare themselves to be more satisfied than those who sat out at least one wave, with 56% of participants in both waves satisfied with the course of reform, versus only 37% of those who participated in neither or only one wave.
Restituents -- those 18% of
respondents
who received property previously owned by a member of their family but confiscated by the communists in 1947 -- are similarly cheery: 66% of them express satisfaction with reform, versus 49% for non-restituents.
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