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The Bank of England’s own commissioned quarterly
surveys
of public attitudes reveal that the credibility of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has now been impaired.
But, despite more frequent
surveys
of portfolio holdings in recent years, certain new asset acquisitions – for example, some held with foreign custodians – still most likely go unreported.
Several
surveys
show that adults reporting childhood sexual abuse often say that there was a period of time when they “could not remember” their abuse.
Surveys
show that men are willing to go to the supermarket once a week or mind the children for a while; but they refuse to iron, sew, chop vegetables, or clean the oven or toilet, because these tasks are considered unmanly.
For example, rather than relying on household
surveys
every few years to calculate the mortality rate, systems of civil registration and vital statistics can collect mortality data in real time, with the added benefit of information on cause of death.
Likewise, poverty data could be collected at relatively low cost and with much higher frequency than today, by using smart phones to replace paper-based
surveys.
Some analysts have suggested that the use of mobile phones could bring down the cost of
surveys
by up to 60% in some East African countries over a ten-year period.
The data revolution offers a breakthrough opportunity for service delivery, management, accountability, and validation, thanks to a dense ecosystem of technologies that collect information in multiple ways: remote sensing and satellite imagery, biometric data, GIS tracking, facilities-based data, household surveys, social media, crowd-sourcing, and other channels.
Surveys
of public opinion all over the world find that most people believe that emotional problems, including those deemed severe, such as hearing voices, are primarily caused by bad things happening to us rather than by faulty brains or genes.
In addition, according to the latest surveys, around 100 million Chinese identify themselves as Buddhist.
In a new study that
surveys
and updates the economics literature, Arvind Subramanian, Olivier Jeanne, and John Williamson conclude that “the international community should not seek to promote totally free trade in assets – even over the long run – because…free capital mobility seems to have little benefit in terms of long-run growth.”
Such evidence as one can find from international
surveys
suggests that the regulatory changes implemented so far have not driven bankers away.
In the UK, many business
surveys
from 2009-2012 told the same story.
According to US government surveys, Uganda’s children are among the world’s least likely to complete primary school, and are nearly twice as likely as children in Kenya and Rwanda to die.
You can use sentiment-sensing tools – everything from tools that measure the prevalence of negative or positive words about your offering on Twitter and Facebook, to customer
surveys
that produce precise, structured data.
According to national household surveys, a Chilean worker earning the minimum wage takes home $300 a month, while a professional in the top 10% of the income scale typically makes about $2,400 dollars a month.
Official
surveys
insist that 86% of Russians – and it is usually 86% – support him on everything from the annexation of Crimea to his latest term as president.
The same
surveys
indicate that younger people, the highly educated, and those who identify themselves as upper class, are more likely to associate themselves with the world.
He did not have to carry out too many
surveys
of voters to arrive at those priorities.
The remaining options are said to fall into three groups: “grand scientific quandaries” (such as uniting gravity and electricity into one theory) which require a huge investment and first world infrastructure; “data collection,” which is the field work associated with archeological digs and biological/genetic surveys; and “science-informed problems,” such as combating AIDS or addressing global warming.
Over 15 consecutive surveys, London’s ranking and ratings have remained broadly constant, while Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt, and Luxembourg have gradually narrowed the gap with it – though that gap remains wide.
And, while data from firms suggest that job losses in the last three months were about 600,000, household surveys, which include self-employed workers and small entrepreneurs, suggest that those losses were above two million.
Two face-to-face
surveys
of more than 2,500 Iranian adults, conducted in 2000 and 2005, clearly show the trend.
They commissioned the first epidemiological
surveys
to identify the source of cholera outbreaks – which could wipe out half the population of a neighborhood in a matter of weeks – and built new waterworks to stop the spread of the disease from the filthy Thames and tainted local pumps.
Surveys
carried out in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Paraguay in the last decade have shown that people exposed to corruption have less confidence in the political system and lower trust in other citizens.
Our study quotes three national water
surveys.
Based on
surveys
of local officials, patronage, not merit, has become the most critical factor in the appointment process.
While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief,
surveys
show that about half of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.
Indeed, the protagonists of caste politics and caste-based public policy simply cannot validate their assertions, offering only small-sample
surveys
that can be grossly misleading in the context of a huge country characterized by monumental diversity.
A host of
surveys
is required to figure out what it really means, for the United States - and for the world.
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