According to the survey, the time working dads spend on work far exceeds the time spent with their children.
If the trend continued--the survey took some time to tabulate--China has overtaken America as the fat capital of the world.
First of all, the definition of employment has changed in the survey literature over time with the 1930s definition being far broader.
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This morning I conducted potentially the most unscientific survey of all time.
And according to yet another pregnancy survey, this time by baby charity Tommy's, 29% of pregnant women feel confused by all the conflicting advice they read.
"The cost of time survey is a good indicator of the general health of the profession on an annual basis and it's clear that the effects of the recession are not over, " she said.
Namely, the survey quantifies the time and costs involved in starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business.
More than the survey results at any one time, the changes from one survey to the next six months later can accurately describe the banking environment for consumers.
Even the federal American Time Use Survey, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, doesn't directly measure how much time all adults in a household are spending caring for their children.
In total 19, 307 patients were receiving dialysis at the time the survey was carried out.
He now runs a company that provides real-time consumer survey data via a smartphone-based app.
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Boys are included in this year's survey for the first time as a point of comparison over gender issues.
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Only 14% of small business owners expected a recession the last time the survey was conducted in December, 2011.
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But instead of running through your rehearsed responses to possible questions again, use that time to survey the workplace.
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The General Lifestyle Survey found in that time the proportion owning a house with a mortgage fell from 40% to 35%.
Perhaps because they fared a little better in 2012 than they had expected when the survey was conducted this time last year.
The Kindle Fire, he noted in an interview, had just gone on sale (following a pre-order phase) at the time the survey was conducted.
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Mr Stratton draws on data from the 2000-01 Time Use Survey in Britain, which shows how people spent their day and which tasks they enjoyed.
In 2003, the first year of the America Time Use Survey, women spent an extra 1.42 hours performing activities in the household and caregiving categories versus 1.17 hours in 2011.
Movies aside, with their images of leisurely cafe and restaurant meals, the survey found that average time spent on a meal in France has dropped from 80 minutes in 1975 to 30 minutes today.
If you believe results from the American Time Use Survey, done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and other studies, plenty of Americans have faulty impressions of how they spend time in our "too-rushed-to-breathe" world.
Voters were asked to use a scale to rank each actor and to mark the category they felt best applied to the actor at the time the survey was conducted, based on the voting criteria.
The Adecco survey sample was relatively small, just 522 full-time workers polled in a telephone survey done from November 21-25, but to me, the findings ring true.
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"We think it's inaccurate to give figures at this time before the survey is completed, " a spokesman said.
Energy costs took THIRD place, sensitive to the cost of gas and power at the time of the survey.
Tied with the no-refund crowd at 73% were the procrastinators, people who had not yet filed at the time of the survey.
At the same time, the survey said that income inequality and an ageing society were likely to be a source of tension in the long run.
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This survey will argue that the time is ripe for a new round of global trade talks not in spite of but because of the current economic troubles.
The guarded approach to hiring that has been evident over the last few years was sustained in part by concerns over the fiscal cliff during the time of the survey.
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Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder, said at the time of the survey, more than 40% of unemployed job seekers had been out of work for six months or longer.
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