Kauffman bases its entrepreneurial activity index on a monthly population survey jointly sponsored by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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When the November jobs report was released in early December it was terrible, showing that only 39, 000 jobs were created. (The economy needs approximately 150, 000 new jobs monthly just to keep up with the growing population).

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The Which? monthly tracker involves researchers interviewing a cross-section of the population online.

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The social network has more than 845 million monthly active users, or one in eight of the global population.

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Loughborough - which has a very large student population - does not rank so highly, clocking up a monthly average of just over 3, 000 illegal music downloads, the data indicates.

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But Yeovil, an area of similar population size with a faster average broadband speed, clocks up a monthly average of 4, 259 downloads.

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Some 19m families, 90% of Iran's population, have done so, setting up bank accounts to receive monthly payments based on numbers of family members.

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