Some researchers question the Fed numbers because they are based on surveys rather than on records of actual contributions.
HSBC's China PMI is seen as a forward-looking indicator, based on surveys with executives in over 420 manufacturing companies.
The figures won't be affected by the storm because they are based on surveys conducted earlier in the month.
This information was based on surveys made at the end of last year, before the poor belg rains last month.
Doctor ratings found in magazines are based on surveys of other doctors.
Being a real-time measure, the index contrasts with GDP and employment reports which are based on surveys and come with lags and revisions.
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The award was based on surveys conducted by international travel research and consultancy group Skytrax, who polled 12.1 million passengers over a nine-month period.
Many of the study's categories, he pointed out, are based on surveys of executives rather than statistical data, and so are influenced by their respondents' biases.
They could not handle the amount of data that he wanted to analyze for his dissertation, which was part of a comparative study based on surveys in seven nations.
The government still is the only source for most nationwide data, but a growing number of banks and research firms are developing their own based on surveys of companies and consumers.
In the case of our record company, we have always planned our production schedule not based on surveys of what our customers want us to record, but based on other factors.
The study was based on surveys conducted in 2004, but Mr Whyte said preliminary analysis of 2009 survey data showed that people had if anything become even more optimistic about their prospects.
The research, based on surveys tracking the actual spending of the same 5, 000 older households from 2001 through 2007, shows that median household spending declines steadily and dramatically as folks age.
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The WHO's latest estimate that about 2.1% of previously untreated and 15% of previously treated TB patients in India are multi-drug-resistant is based on surveys done by just a few Indian states, he said.
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Glassdoor.com, a jobs and career community where people share information and opinions about the places where they work, has just unveiled its third annual Employees' Choice Awards, which lists the top 50 best places to work based on surveys collected from employees throughout 2010.
Transparency International ranks countries based on a scale of zero to 10, based on various surveys carried out.
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The Pentagon study on sexual harassment and assaults, released on Tuesday, was based on anonymous surveys.
Too often voice of the customer programs are based on automated surveys and tech support feedback.
The new figures, based on fresh surveys of charter bus companies, show far fewer are coming than initially thought.
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Estimates based on business surveys have consistently pointed to stronger service-sector growth over the past year or so than the official figures.
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Based on telephone surveys, the authors concluded that the minimum wage hike significantly increased jobs for low-skilled, fast-food workers in New Jersey.
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The study by Grant Graziani, Wilbert van der Klaauw, and Basit Zafar of the New York Fed staff was based on two surveys of about 200 workers.
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He helped establish the Centre for Effective Philanthropy, which among other things produces donor perception reports based on confidential surveys of organisations that receive money from foundations.
Based on actual surveys and interviews with a random sample of debtors, the profs estimate that in 2003, at least 259, 000, or 15.7% of all bankruptcies, were really business-related.
Conservative MP Michael Fallon accused him of producing "anecdotal" evidence, however he said it was based on "surveys, meetings and conversations" and told the MP to withdraw a later that Dr Philpott's research was "nonsense".
Indeed, unpublished research by the Federal Reserve, based on its surveys of consumer finances, has found tentative evidence that during the 1990s households with more shares varied their consumption more in line with stockmarket movements than did those with fewer shares.
Power and Consumer Reports ratings are not an exact science--much of their data is based on questionnaires and surveys, an inherently subjective game.
One, in 1996, estimated that 5% of rapes of victims of reproductive age led to pregnancy, based on repeated phone surveys of the same group of women.
The report summarises the findings from three research reports based on evidence from surveys of almost 3, 500 disabled people and their families, as well as a parliamentary evidence session.
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