As the survey added eight and 10th graders in the 1990s, it also shows gradual declines among these groups.
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Still, as the survey shows, organizations are scarfing up cloud services.
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As the survey indicates, this will not be easy.
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As long as the survey group is a true statistical representation of the country -- in terms of race and gender, for example -- even a small pool of respondents can yield results that are accurate for the whole country.
This survey suffers from the same seasonal adjustment issues as the Household Survey except that BLS reports the current number (141, 000 SA for September) and the revised data from the immediate past two months.
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Third, some downward revisions are likely in the final release as the current survey could be biased by the positive sentiment over EU summit in the first two weeks of December.
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Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
While he's not quite as gung-ho on the fall shopping season as the NRF survey, "to some extent, consumers will still make these purchases, " he says.
But as the Nikkei survey points out, innovation and technology will not be enough to win in the new competition.
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The project uses aerial photographs known as ortho-imagery to produce the maps, and is being delivered as a joint project between the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Land and Property Services (previously known as the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland).
Last fall, enrollment fell at 46% of the 383 private colleges in the new Nacubo survey as the pool of high-school seniors declined.
According to statistics from august bodies such as the Nua Internet survey and Nielsen-Netratings, just 600m of the world's 6.3bn people are wired to the web.
The website described its survey as the "UK's first pet census".
Individual investors as measured by the AAII survey are also more bullish as of December 15, with more than 40% bullish.
Three came first in the most recent YouGov Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience report, and the YouGov iPhone survey, as the number one network in the UK for speed and value.
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This stability reflects roughly proportional rises in the labor force and employment, as measured by the household survey.
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But the loss seems implicit rather than explicit: Schmidt's search engine firm held at 33%, keeping its customer base steady even as the overall market grew, the survey said.
As Hurricane Sandy moves on, some homeowners may get a sick feeling as they survey the damage, pull out their insurance policies and learn that standard coverage excludes flood damage.
Virtually every state in the nation saw a rise in its Latino population from 2000 to 2005, according to the new mid-decade Census Bureau report known as the American Community Survey.
As analysts survey the inflation "hawks" and "doves" on the Fed board, Greenspan, who embraces theories of a technology-driven New Economy, is seen as having a more lenient interest-rate bent than Clinton appointee Laurence Meyer.
The survey was conducted for Fidelity by the firm GfK. Fidelity, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company behind Vanguard based on fund assets, was not identified to the 1, 154 survey participants as the sponsor.
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The samples were collected during an annual, nationwide survey conducted by the CDC, known as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The fact that character and integrity showed as poorly as they did in the survey is proof positive for why the corporate workplace struggles with hiring.
Despite high-profile examples of internet security breaches, such as the recent incident of phishing email scams, 76% of the survey group thought the internet was a safe place "as long as you know what you're doing".
In Scotland, the most desirable place to live was named in a Bank of Scotland survey as the Shetland Islands, ousting Aberdeenshire from top spot.
The Association of Chief Police Officers said the relationship between the public and police was very durable and there was evidence, such as from the British Crime Survey, which showed public confidence in policing had remained stable.
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